Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and “We’ve got to be together in this thing” when you meant… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally… — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
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If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask,… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Mr. John Coleman, who invented the Weather Channel, represents over 30,000 scientists who cannot get their voices heard on the main stream… — Peter DeGraaf Copy Share Image
Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
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I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give her… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits… — George Polya Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a… — Rupert Spira Copy Share Image
I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
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I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I… — Adele Copy Share Image
Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we… — Michael E. Mann Copy Share Image
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