“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the… — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
You go to a restaurant with a friend for lunch and the next table, two people are sitting opposite each other. They… — Brigid Berlin Copy Share Image
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. — Gersonides Copy Share Image
In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it.… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite… — Nando Parrado Copy Share Image
This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Having no background in philosophic thought and ignorant of the reasons supporting their faith, they experience great uneasiness when someone questions their… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
