Negation Quotes
88 quotes by 84 authors
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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
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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
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Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?
— John Daido Loori
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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
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
— James A. Garfield
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Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
— Margaret Thatcher
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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
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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
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Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
— Arthur Koestler
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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
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But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses…
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Who Wrote These Negation Quotes
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