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Opposites Quotes by Umberto Eco
- The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell…
- The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
- A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that…
- Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker
- Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. — Honore de Balzac
- I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody,… — Drew Barrymore
- Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton
- The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or… — Jean Baudrillard
- The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people… — Warren G. Bennis
- Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger
- There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great… — Niels Bohr
- The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr
- Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only… — Niels Bohr
- Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and… — Mel Brooks