By continual introspection he is seeking the charm, so to speak, that will render his afflatus permanent.
Now it is easy for a doubter to object that many of the poems on the subject show the poet, not arraying evidence for a trial, but leaning over the brink of introspection in the attitude of Narcissus.
The mystery of inspiration breeds introspection; introspection breeds egoism; egoism breeds pride; pride breeds contempt for other men; contempt for other men breeds hostility and persecution; persecution breeds proud isolation.
The question as to the validity of moral intuitions being thus separated from the simple question 'whether they actually exist,' it becomes obvious that the latter can only be decided for each person by direct introspection or reflection.
Of course, hunger is frequently and naturally accompanied with anticipation of the pleasure of eating: but careful introspection seems to show that the two are by no means inseparable.
If this be admitted to be a normal experience, it must surely be also admitted that Desire in this case is a feeling in which introspection does not enable us to detect the slightest quality of pain.
These two words introspection and extrospection admirably convey the difference in the manner of thinking between those who from preference look, and those who from preference reflect.
All these examples show that the clearly defined characteristics into which it is sought to divide extrospection and introspection do not exist.
Conversely, introspection may, in certain cases, adopt the procedure of externospection.
Introspection and experiment seem to unite in telling us that this energy is none other than the human Will.
But the newer psychology studies the mind objectively, from the outside, by means of recording instruments, and does not depend upon introspection for its results.
It is the delight of scholars, of philosophers, of men who live by silent introspection or quiet communing with nature.
It would be simpler to admit the fact: that the purpose of introspection is precisely to effect the right sort of alteration.
If introspection should give us the original experience again, we should just be living through the experience over again in direct fashion; as psychologists we should not be forwarded one bit.
Prescribed as a duty, introspection became at once a main characteristic of religious life (Burr).
The beginner in psychology will however find, again and again, that his common-sense self stands in the way of disinterested observation; and as the word introspection contains a reference to this self, he may prefer to drop it altogether.
John Stuart Mill maintained that introspection and the progress of psychological analysis possess a certain dissolving force that, along with disillusionment, induces sadness.
Sometimes that which is furnished by introspection alone, sometimes that which objective science endeavours to decipher, are respectively held to be primitive.
A thousand indications, drawn from introspection and from history, would be found to confirm this speculative presumption.
Once a people of lofty introspection and elegant repose, they became a race of violent activity and strong emotions.
Nietzsche believed that introspection and self-analysis, as they were ordinarily manifested, were signs of disease, and that the higher man and superman would waste little time upon them.
And now these were wasted gifts, morbid qualities, now it was all useless and sick and had become more sick and more useless as the sick years of shadow drearily dragged on their misty-melancholy introspection and increasing distrustfulness.
She had gone through the painful introspection which, in a thoroughly good girl, always follows such an outburst as Peter's.
And note further that as scientific introspection develops we are likely to receive fuller accounts of these concurrent mental processes, these partial externalisations of the creatures of the romancer's brain.
On the contrary, they form an instructive, an indispensable transition from psychological introspection of the old-fashioned kind to the bolder methods on whose validity I am anxious to insist.
But he found it impossible to concentrate his thoughts on anything but the riotous wave of introspection that was flooding his brain.
He felt an unanswerable doubt, and at such times of introspection he would stop trying to think and merely let himself be carried on in whatever course fortune chose to bear him.
There would be time enough for doubts and introspection when it was all over, when for the last time the familiar eight-forty swept him out of Fernhurst's life for ever.
Introspection is always, as a habit, unhealthy: introspection in childhood, fatally so.
We carry on that examination by means of the introspection which consciousness enables us to have of our own minds, and by observing and comparing the phenomena of mind as manifested in other persons.
All which introspection shows us is that under certain conditions there occurs a state of consciousness more or less like that which previously occurred under more or less like conditions.
Or they sought to attain the same end by asking another person a question, by means of which certain processes of thought would be excited, and then by questioning the person about the introspection he had made.
This alleged method of exact introspection ended ultimately at the point from whence it started, i.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "introspection" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
