Quotes About Negation

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I was beginning to be confirmed in my skepticism when the notion occurred to me of consulting, as a last result, Poetry: who knows? perhaps it would be profitable, perhaps it conceals beneath its arbitrary appearances some definitive revelation ... Illusory recourse! Poetry had outstripped be in negation and cost me even my uncertainties ...

Whether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal—the protest against that which is.

It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

But, after all, too much knowledge, like ignorance, brings you to a negation.

no nos convertimos en lo que somos sino mediante la negación íntima y radical de lo que han hecho de nosotros

This was Bad with a capital Hell No.

Indeed, even with unlimited resources it is nigh on impossible to prove a negative. How

To negate the pain, men and gods forget, pretend to forget, then forget to pretend.

right at this moment, I cannot imagine it being any worse right here, I have been turned into nothing right now, I am negated

My agent said 'you've got clubs looking at you and United are one,' and I said: 'no they're not!'

El bien es la victoria sobre el mal, la negación del mal. Si se canta el bien, el mal es eliminado por ese oportuno acto. No canto lo que no hay que hacer. Canto lo que hay que Hacer. Lo primero no contiene lo segundo. Lo segundo contiene lo primero.

even a little bit?" "No." She

discerning men have described Communism as reversing and negating history. It has turned man against himself. Instead of solving the many complex problems of modern life, Marxism's negative approach has simply resurrected primitive problems which past generations of struggling humanity had already succeeding in solving.

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

To refer a subject to a negative class is unmeaning, unless the 'not' is a mere modification of the positive, as in the example of 'not honourable' and 'dishonourable'; or unless the class is characterized by the absence rather than the presence of a particular quality.

As the Pre- Socratic philosopher failed to distinguish between the universal and the true, while he placed the particulars of sense under the false and apparent, so Plato appears to identify negation with falsehood, or is unable to distinguish them. The greatest service rendered by him to mental science is the recognition of the communion of classes, which, although based by him on his account of 'Not-being,' is independent of it.

The not- beautiful is as real as the beautiful, the not-just as the just. And the essence of the not-beautiful is to be separated from and opposed to a certain kind of existence which is termed beautiful. And this opposition and negation is the not-being of which we are in search, and is one kind of being.

a Christian mind demands conscious negation; a Christian mind is impossible without the discipline of refusal.

All three are nihilists

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Concerning the perception of form, sound, or knowledge, these are not the object of negation; What must be rejected is conceptualized dualism, which is the cause of all miseries.