Quotes About Negation

Why not?" Then she thought further. "I wonder what Halt will say when we put it to him." Alyss shrugged. "Well, it's such a logical idea, he can hardly say no, can he?" "No!" said Halt. "No, no, no—and, just in case you missed it the first time, no.

Nothing he could do or say would bridge the gulf because there was nothing here to appeal to. There was nothing here but anger and fear, things in themselves entirely sterile. Divorced from the love of righteousness, the fear of God, they were nothing. There was nothing here. He had not realized before the ghastly evil of negation. He had seldom felt such evil. Nothingness was a bottomless pit...

the concept of eternity must not be grasped as if it were suspended time, or in any case not in the sense that eternity would come after time, for this would turn eternity into the future, in other words into a moment of time. And the concept of eternity must also not be understood in the sense of a negation of time, so that it would be merely an abstraction of time. For time in its concept is, like the concept itself generally, eternal, and therefore also absolute presence.

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water

Yes, said Mr. Casaubon, with that peculiar pitch of voice which makes the word half a negative.

A character at unity with itself –that performs what it intends, subdues every counteracting impulse, and has no visions beyond the distinctly possible –is strong by its very negations.

even when you negate a frame, you activate the frame.

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

Yes" actually means "No" 100% of the time, when the question is "Can I give you some advice?

Un être grisé de vie ne prévoit pas la mort ; elle n'est pas ; il la nie par chacun de ses gestes.

Whatever is, is, and whatever is not, is not

I found a note he'd left behind entitled 'Ciao': One just keeps saying, 'No...No...No...' Head bowed, hat in hand, A cringing, cunning little step back, With each dialectical evasion, Retreating, receding, 'no...no...no...' Until one simply disappears...

Une liberté qui ne s'emploie qu'à nier la liberté doit être niée.

It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment . . . the contentment of quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is dullness made God.

I don't even exist—I'm no one. Nothing.

And' and 'or' are the basic operations of logic. Together with 'no' (the logical operation of negation) they are a complete set of basic logical operations—all other logical operations, no matter how complex, can be obtained by suitable combinations of these.

history is the negation of nature.

Nu exist? nici o soluÈ›ie pentru nimic, iat? premisa de la care ar trebui s? plec?m cu toÈ›i în construcÈ›ia actelor È™i gândurilor. În realitate, tot ce facem È™i gândim purcede din negaÈ›ia acestei premise.

A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might — gainsaying everything — shake off my doubts and triumph over them. But I have only the taste of negation, not its grace.

There is no negator who is not famished for some catastrophic yes .

Se non si ha dentro di sé la passione dell'insolubile, non è possibile immaginare gli eccessi di cui è capace la negazione, l'impietosa lucidità della negazione.

O espetáculo do homem - que vomitivo! O amor - um encontro de duas salivas... Todos os sentimentos extraem seu absoluto da miséria das glândulas. Não há nobreza senão na negação da existência, em um sorriso que domina paisagens aniquiladas.

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.

This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the State is, from the standpoint of the State, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue. It bears the name patriotism, and it constitutes the entire transcendent morality of the State.