It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“The war of 1914–18 was the absolute negation of everything that Clausewitz had stood” — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“There is no tragedy without commitment; no negation even, without it.” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
Disease may ... be thought of as the negation of the normal. — William Thomas Councilman Copy Share Image
“There at least is a first affirmation, I mean negation, on which to build.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself? — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible,… — Rachel Pollack Copy Share Image
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the… — Mark Noble Copy Share Image
Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony… — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“If you first fix a horn on the head of a rabbit and then remove it again, the rabbit might wonder what… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In general, every negation must depend on the rejection of an affirmation or proposition, which means that emptiness as a nonimplicative negation… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal. — William Thomas Councilman Copy Share Image
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
