Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure,… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
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If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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