Quotes About Antithesis

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

The act of giving a reason is the antithesis of authority. When the voice of authority fails, the voice of reason emerges. Or vice versa.

Science depends on dialectic in which only when thesis and antithesis are developed can there be an ultimate synthesis.

I was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love

The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law.

Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.

Cornelius Van Til, under whom Schaeffer studied at Westminster for two years, used Kuyper's notion of the antithesis (i.e., that an absolute antithesis exists in all of life between the believer and unbeliever) to develop his presuppositional apologetics.

As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.

Mire, la muerte es digna de honores en tanto es la cuna de la vida, el seno materno de la renovación. Sin embargo, vista como la antítesis de la vida y separada de ella se convierte en un fantasma, en una máscara horrenda o en algo peor todavía. Porque la muerte entendida como fuerza espiritual independiente es una fuerza enteramente depravada; cuya perversa seducción sin duda es sinónimo del más espantoso extravío del espíritu humano.

simplified Hegelian dialectical reasoning, with its thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework)

Opposites contend

we recognize all things by the existence of their opposite—day as distinguishable from night, failure from success, peace from war." We could add "safety from hazard." When

Panic is the last thing we can afford," Coppelia said. "Panic will have everyone rushing off in different directions to try to 'save the Library.' Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.

Panic will have everyone rushing off in different directions to try to 'save the Library.' Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.

Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.

What I like and find liberating in dialogue comedy is that the characters, and what they say, are not me. These are fleeting thoughts and observations and not presented as truths but as something that illuminates the character and the dynamic between the characters. This kind of dialogue is thesis and antithesis - and we never get to a synthesis.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

He is the antithesis of Voltaire, the child of Leibniz.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

Well, I have five brothers—Rest, Thankful, Watching, Patience, Consider—and each one of them the very opposite of their name.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.