Quotes About Negation
While he possesses all the positive attributes of the universe (being the universal Cause) yet, in a more strict sense, He does not possess them, since He transcends them all; wherefore there is no contradiction between the affirmations and the negations, insomuch as He infinitely precedes all conceptions of deprivation, being beyond all positive and negative distinctions.
~ Peter Rollins
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one. It also may be characterized as a "multiple-check" system. A proposal emanating from one branch of government can be checked—that is, negated—by another. A
~ Philip Norton
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Nationalism only allows for affirmations, and every doctrine that discards doubt, negation, is a form of fanaticism and stupidity.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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Desmentir que hay un Dios es afirmar la certeza del concepto divino, pues de lo contrario ignoraríamos cuál es la idea derruida por la negación precitada y por carencia de palabras nuestra negación no podría ni formularse. (Acerca de Unamuno, poeta - Inquisiciones)
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.
~ Émile Zola
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You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that with sentimentality. With the idea of some indomitable spirit. That's a fairy tale. It's what people say about other people, to avoid the wretchedness. It's just cruelty by other means. Requiring a person to stay alive. For you.
~ Adam Haslett
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Society was saved by the negation of its own principles, by a revolution in its religion, and by violation of its most sacred rights. In this revolution, the idea of justice spread to an extent that had not before been dreamed of, never to return to its original limits. Heretofore justice had existed only for the masters; it then commenced to exist for the slaves.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The coming Revolution can render no greater service to humanity than to make the wage system, in all its forms, an impossibility, and to render Communism, which is the negation of wage-slavery, the only possible solution.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
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This feeling, of being negated at the same time as I was exposed, had had a particularly powerful effect on me, I said.
~ Rachel Cusk
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
~ Jonathan Raban
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Moving your asshole-mouth & YES SIR I am saying NO MA'AM I am saying.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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la inhibición, represión y negación de las emociones, y el estilo evitativo para resolver y afrontar problemas, debilitan el sistema inmunológico y hacen a las personas más susceptibles de contraer cáncer y enfermedades infecciosas. En
~ Walter Riso
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The existence of strict moral principles has invariably signified that the biological, and specifically the sexual needs of man were not being satisfied. Every moral regulation is in itself sex-negating, and all compulsory morality is life-negating.
~ Wilhelm Reich
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But not to know error is to lie, is to spit up poison through the harrowing margins of weakened mineral campaigns. It is the deeply filtered and the wretched who deny this, who test themselves with exoteric perfection, who turn their branded melodias to simple outward gain. In contrast to the rotation of immensity, to the treble glare of inward cyclical rarity, such outward wit carries less than the power of negation.
~ Will Alexander
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System 1 is not prone to doubt. It suppresses ambiguity and spontaneously constructs stories that are as coherent as possible. Unless the message is immediately negated, the associations that it evokes will spread as if the message were true.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
~ James Nachtwey
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I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.
~ Douglas Adams
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Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than blamed. But, M. Poirot, evil is real! It is a fact! I believe in Evil as I believe in Good. It exists! It is powerful! It walks the earth!' He stopped. His breath was coming fast. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked suddenly apologetic. 'I'm sorry. I got carried away.
~ Agatha Christie
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Piasek... Wszystko, co posiada form?, jest u?ud?. Jedynie pewny jest ruch piasku, neguj?cy wszelkie formy...
~ K?b? Abe
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She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as ballon, a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers - as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.
~ Karen Blixen
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There's no scandal involved," she said airily. "I have no connection with you whatsoever. I have nothing to do with you. You are a thimble filled with water next to my ocean. You are a grain of sand to my beach. You are a tiny star in the sky. You're nothing to me.
~ Karen Ranney
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Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.
~ Emma Goldman
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Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.
~ Erich Fromm
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
~ Karl Marx
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