Opposites Quotes
1717 Opposites quotes by 1276 unique authors
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Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer…
— Lewis Mumford
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Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit…
— Carl Jung
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Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's…
— Judith Perelman Rossner
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The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play,…
— Curt Sachs
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With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then the opposite must…
— Tonya Hurley
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It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each…
— Bernard Lazare
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A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
— Nathaniel Branden
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
— Adam Weishaupt
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River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like…
— Steven Moffat
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H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not just a dress…
— Alber Elbaz
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In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.
— Viktor Schauberger
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The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.
— Walter Russell
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Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of…
— Percival Lowell
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
— Watchman Nee
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Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high. He came to…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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When pride retreats from a man, humility begins to dwell in him, and the more pride is diminished, so much more does humility grow. The…
— Tikhon of Zadonsk
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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.
— Maya Angelou
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In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God…
— Andrew Greeley
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The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact…
— John Conyers
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the…
— Karl Liebknecht
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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and…
— Michel de Certeau
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