Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.
John Stuart MillTags: innocence morality abstinence characteristics commandments nobleness paganism precepts reaction
How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.
Judith OrloffTags: inspiration emotions reaction emotional-freedom judith-orloff
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Bruce LeeTags: reaction lee bruce pattern
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Sigmund FreudTags: life prediction sex action reaction personality human-being
Supposing that what is at any rate believed to be the 'truth' really is true, and the meaning of all culture is the reduction of the beast of prey 'man' to a tame and civilized animal, a domestic animal, then one would undoubtedly have to regard all those instincts of reaction and ressentiment through whose aid the noble races and their ideals were finally confounded and overthrown as the actual instruments of culture; which is not to say that the bearers of these instincts themselves represent culture. Rather is the reverse not merely probable—no! today it is palpable! These bearers of the oppressive instincts that thirst for reprisal, the descendants of every kind of European and non-European slavery, and especially of the entire pre-Aryan populace—they represent the regression of mankind! These 'instruments of culture' are a disgrace to man and rather an accusation and counterargument against 'culture' in general!
Friedrich NietzscheTags: culture reaction ressentiment
There's lower wisdom in comment.
Toba BetaTags: purity reaction proactive unoriginal
Action triggers reaction.
An object somehow responds when we observe it.
We just assume that we do objective.
In fact, unconsciously we only want to see some parts
of the object which do not evoke the bitter memories of our past.
Tags: action reaction subjective observe objectivity unconsciously
Winning is about making enemy reacts as predicted.
Toba BetaTags: reaction predicted winning-mind
As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.
Simone ElkelesTags: reaction chain nikki chain-reaction
The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military conflicts, it's almost impossible to define victory. You can't document the war's progress on a world map or chart it on a historical timetable in a way that makes any sense. A country used to a feeling of being in command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction, swinging wildly between passive fear and fevered, often thoughtless, activity, at a high cost to its self-confidence.
George PackerTags: progress war victory 9-11 control self-confidence reaction surprise terror command american-history 9-11-10th-anniversary
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