Quotes About Opposite

An eye and regard unto filthy lucre or profit in the world is proposed as opposite unto the readiness of mind which is required in them that are called to this work.

So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness.

Pilon complained, It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those lessons are opposite. There is not a story to take into your head. It proves nothing. I like it, said Pablo. I like it because it hasn't any meaning you can see, and still it does seem to mean something, I can't tell what.

Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.

The best way to battle fear is with courage. You have to look at the opposite of fear: Fear is scared of courage.

Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it's struggle, it's ugly, it's horrific, it's dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Hayat?m?z?n ikinci bölümünde aç??a vurdu?umuz mizac?m?z, ço?unlukla öyle olsa bile, her zaman ba?lang?çtaki mizac?m?z?n geli?mi? veya solmu?, güçlenmi? veya yumu?am?? ?ekli de?ildir; bazen de tamamen z?t bir mizaç, adeta tersyüz edilmi? bir giysidir.

Those in love see renunciation in the same light: they imagine it while living in a state that is its opposite; and, never having so much as begun to try it, they cannot believe in its power of healing.

Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.

Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor."

Fires are best fought with water: It puts out the flames without adding to the blaze.

sadness is not the absence of happiness, but the opposite of it.

For you to say that sadness is not the absence of happiness, but the opposite of it.

The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.

Por lo tanto recibimos bendiciones espirituales por la gracia de un tercero y no por nuestros propios esfuerzos. Dos ideas opuestas no pueden ser las dos ciertas: que la gracia es tan poco costosa que cualquiera en cualquier lugar la puede ganar; y a la vez, la gracia es tan preciosa que sólo podemos obtenerla por medio de los méritos de un hombre: Jesucristo.

The Being as an opposite of the Void is defined as Knowledge opposed to the non-Knowledge and this way it is a non-Knowledge which receives the meaning of Knowledge precisely because it has the possibility to reflect the only thing that is true in its Self, namely non-Knowledge!

After what I have stated, anyone can tell that Knowledge rests on the Void in order to be known, precisely because the Knowledges Self is the Being, the opposite of the Void, but, and I recommend attention, the opposite of the Void does not mean that is is that something, that in fact has a subsistence meaning, no! Not in the least.

Each soul which believes it is its own eternal evil will eternally seek its good, but the great paradox is that in order to find each other one should look for the Good and the other for the Evil because they cannot both have the same sense because they are the opposite of each other.