“Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.” PersonsCareValuesReligiousQualitySituationJudgmentIntellectualLowsNegativeArgumentHotDescriptionVaguePersuasionMetaphysicalWho CaresAbstractionPredictablePredicamentsPhilosophicStovesVerify Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.” MeanBodyMotherValuesEatingConsciousNegativeTasksRefusePoisonUnconsciousDisorderDestroyingRescueTolerateResortsEating DisorderAllergicVomiting Author:Marion Woodman
“Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.” PeopleImportantBigsValuesDifferencesNegativeTools Author:Shiv Khera
“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.” FeelsWellsMayMeanDoeSelfFactsEyeDesireValuesOrderFallWishParentSimpleDisciplineConscienceNegativeCriticismErrorsOneselfPunishmentFeel GoodRelyMotivatedSelf DisciplineEducatorCorrections Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,.. up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we should feel encouraged to attempt establishing the hypothesis, instead of trying to construct a counterexample.” IfsFeelsShouldTryingScienceValuesResultsSpecialProveNegativeTestsMachinesIncreaseMathematicsPermitConstructsHypothesisSequenceConsecutive Author:Alfred Tarski
“There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.” WisdomSeemsValuesKnowledgeKnowingNegativeProofLatinNot KnowingBoastKnowledge Wisdom Author:Peter Brodie