Negation Quotes

88 Negation quotes by 83 unique authors

What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we should posit and… — Pope Dionysius
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire… — Salvatore Quasimodo
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge. — Ramakrishna
When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche… — Frantz Fanon
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we… — D. H. Lawrence
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a… — William Hazlitt
Disease may ... be thought of as the negation of the normal. — William Thomas Councilman
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to… — Godfrey Reggio
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. â€¦ 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

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