Quotes About Negation

I am the spirit of perpetual negation. (Mephistopheles)

A double negative is a no-no.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

Thought as such ... is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it.

Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.

Intellect's true concern is a negation of reification.

Divertir-se significa que não devemos pensar, que devemos esquecer a dor, mesmo onde ela se mostra. Na base do divertimento planta-se a impotência. É, de fato, fuga, mas não, como pretende, fuga da realidade perversa, mas sim do ultimo grão de resistência que a realidade ainda pode haver deixado. A libertação prometida pelo entretenimento é a do pensamento como negação.

Total purposelessness gives the lie to the totality of purposefulness in the world of domination, and only by virtue of this negation, which consummates the established order by drawing the conclusion from its own principle of reason, has existing society up to now become aware of another that is possible. The bliss of contemplation consists in disenchanted charm. Radiance is the appeasement of myth.

The Everlasting No.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

To say that evil is a privation is not the same as saying that it is a mere absence or negation of good. The power of sight is found neither in a blind man nor in a rock. But it is a privation for the blind man, whereas it is a mere absence in the rock.

I am nothing, and not even that.

Why do I do anything? I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Then my answer is Double-No with a side order of Nope-Nuh-Uh and a couple sauce packets of Extra-Zesty Fuck-No Dressing.

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

When it comes to nothingness, there is no cup.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Allander smiled. "Well, if he doesn't tell me nothing then he would, in fact, be telling me something. A double negative makes a positive. Your advice isn't concordant with your desires.

How could any theologian explain the meaning of Christian identity in America and fail to engage white supremacy, its primary negation?

Will ye, ay or nay?

was driven by the will to negate what one fears. No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.

Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.