Antithesis Quotes

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One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature,… — Louis Althusser
The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the… — William Styron
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan. — C.S. Lewis
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but… — Leo Buscaglia
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive. — Elisabeth Elliot
I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the… — Carmen Ejogo
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to… — John Boyle O'Reilly
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image. — Glenn Greenwald
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe,… — P.J. O'Rourke
I am not a hoarder, but my wardrobe is the antithesis of fast fashion. I buy clothes - beautiful in looks and make - to… — Suzy Menkes
I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank. — Douglas Wilson
I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for. — Jonathan Shapiro
Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. — John Clayton
Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness,… — Charles T Sprading
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. — Aaron Copland
The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera. — Ilkin Santak

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