Quotes About Antithesis

Faith is the very antithesis of reason

Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete.

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She's revolutionary; she's a warrior.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Say the negative and do the opposite.

Of course," said the Queen, "but briefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

What's the opposite of opposite? Consider yourself bamboozled!

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

And he himself one vile antithesis.

I'm kind of the antithesis of a comedian. People that don't like me will agree with that.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

The technical term for this shotgun marriage of contrasting thoughts is antithesis, meaning "opposing idea.

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

Qué irónico que la gente descarte las matemáticas como la antítesis de la creatividad. Están desperdiciando una forma de arte más antigua que cualquier libro, más profunda que cualquier poema, y más abstracta que cualquier otra cosa.

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.

Madurai is a city with a long political history. It was at the centre of the anti-Brahmin movement, the anti-Hindi movement, the Dravidian movement, and was a pro-LTTE city. Yet, this city has elected me, the very antithesis of all these movements.

As Fidel Castro, the leader of Communist Cuba, would explain with a frankness that his Russian mentors preferred to avoid: "The revolution needs the enemy. . . . The revolution needs for its development its antithesis, which is the counterrevolution."9 And if enemies were lacking, they had to be fabricated.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.