Cognitive behavioral therapy Quote by Alfred Korzybski

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

— Jonathan Raban

“Negative identity is a phenomenon whereby you define yourself by what you are not. This has enormous advantages, especially in terms of the hardening…

— Morris Berman

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking…

— Alfred Korzybski

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

— Louis Althusser

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in…

— Herbert Marcuse

Identity the positives of a negative situation and cling to them tenaciously.

— Varsha Sharma

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

— Stephenie Meyer

The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate…

— Glenn Gould

“The negative principle is less identity-with-self than non-difference-with-self. This absence becomes a factor only by negation of its own negation. It is less a…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

— Joe Slovo

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

— Susan Jeffers