Antithesis Quotes

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Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time… — Sam Harris
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. — Christopher Hitchens
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. — Herbert Read
A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. — Thomas Sowell
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define… — Wole Soyinka
I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president.… — Eliot Spitzer
I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real. — Paul Walker
This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic. — Allen West
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the… — Craig Clevenger
Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness — Eckhart Tolle
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and… — Alan Bennett
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of… — Robertson Davies
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness… — Primo Levi
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among… — Jon Krakauer
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings… — Jonathan Franzen
War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life. — Joss Whedon
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for… — Italo Calvino
Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe… — Alexandra Adornetto
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear… — William Shakespeare

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