Negation Quotes

88 Negation quotes by 83 unique authors

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were… — Theodor Adorno
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly,… — John Cowper Powys
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of… — Louis Bromfield
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical… — Paul Tillich
The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to… — Glenn Gould
...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus… — Michael Shermer
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity. — Mahatma Gandhi
Relief is a great feeling.It's the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to… — Vera Nazarian
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the… — Emma Goldman
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or… — Karl Marx
I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government… — Herbert Hoover
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your… — Alexander Haig
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. — Knut Hamsun
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick… — Ivan Illich
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object… — Simone Weil
Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and… — Matthew Scully
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience… — Derrick Jensen
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in… — Mikhail Bakunin
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life… — Charlotte Bronte
He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was… — Karl Marlantes
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings.… — William Blake

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