Negation Quotes

88 Negation quotes by 83 unique authors

Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings,… — Werner Heisenberg
All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations. — Max Scheler
The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness… — Otto Weininger
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations. — Unknown Author
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to… — Eugene Delacroix
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle… — Richard Livingstone
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them. — Mariella Frostrup
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth — Niels Bohr
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action;… — Thomas B. Macaulay
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments. — Zhuangzi
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for… — Robert Henri
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only… — Liam O'Flaherty
Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse. — Pope Julius II
The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians -… — James Davison Hunter
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in… — Lord Kelvin
Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill… — Erich Schiffmann
Government is essentially the negation of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a… — Leo Tolstoy
Is not virtue a negation of becoming? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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