Quotes About Negation

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

The great advantage of the reductio method is that it allows us to tell if a statement is true, even if we do not know how to construct a proof for it. We can tell a statement is true by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The short answer is 'No.' The long answer is 'Hell No.'

God as God, … as a being not finite, not human, not materially conditioned, not phenomenal, is only an object of thought. … [H]e is known … only by abstraction and negation … There is no other spirit, no other intelligence which enlightens him, which is active in him. … The 'infinite spirit,' is therefore nothing else than the intelligence disengaged from the limits of individuality and corporeality[.]

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

It seems to me that maybe It pretty much always means, no

it is an act of bravery not to die in the circumstances in which you have been living. Your very patience was the face of resistance! And what you resisted was the desire of those around you to negate you! Well, you have not been negated. From almost nothing, you have nevertheless derived the strength to go on... and that strength has seen you here, to a place where you have been fulfilled. Where you have known happiness.

Identity negates possibility, denies openness to other life. Identity kills, both metaphorically and very, very literally.

Social self-determination does not and cannot exist in a capitalist society: capital, in all its forms, is the negation of self-determination.

how liberal democracy, already weakened at its own hand, is being undermined by the enforced negation of its principles by the onslaught of terrorism.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Un hombre que usa su silencio casi como un escudo y su negativa casi como un arma, un hombre que prefiere la muerte a la traición

A hole is defined by its edges, and these are not part of the hole. So a hole can exist only if there is something that is not a hole.

En un campo yo soy la ausencia del campo

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

In the mind there is no absolute faculty of willing and not willing, but only of particular volitions, namely, this or that affirmation, or this or that negation."50 We do suspend our belief in some ideas, in a manner of speaking, Spinoza allows. But what this really means is that we affirm some other idea—namely, that the first idea is uncertain.

I would prefer not to: this sentence speaks in the intimacy of our nights: negative preference, the negation that effaces preference and is effaced therein: the neutrality of that which is not among the things there are to do.

The negative principle is less identity-with-self than non-difference-with-self. This absence becomes a factor only by negation of its own negation. It is less a unity of the multiple in the living than an adhesion between the elements of the multiple. In a sense, there is only the multiple, and this totality that surges from it is not a totality in potential, but the establishment of a certain dimension.

With the cogito begins the struggle between consciousnesses in which, as Hegel says, each one seeks the death of the other. For this battle to even begin, for each consciousness to even suspect the external presences that it negates, they must have a common ground and they must remember their peaceful coexistence in the world of childhood.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

The truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.