Negation Quotes

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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to… — Emile M. Cioran
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose,… — Emma Goldman
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself? — John Daido Loori
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. — Charles Caleb Colton
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. — James A. Garfield
Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert… — Arthur E. Powell
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and… — Miguel de Unamuno
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit… — Andrea Dworkin
Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the… — Ibn Taymiyyah
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it. — Lupita Nyong'o
As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act… — Eugene V. Debs
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
Consensus is the negation of leadership. — Margaret Thatcher
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own… — Corliss Lamont
What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn to become a… — Henri Mignet
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends… — Alexandre Kojeve
But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasnâ€™t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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