Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Consensus is the negation of leadership.
Government is essentially the negation of liberty.
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
Life is best when lived your way and not as a negation of what you don't like.
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.
The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
