Quotes About Antithesis

Attempting to be neutral in one's intellectual endeavors (whether research, argumentation, reasoning, or teaching) is tantamount to striving to erase the antithesis between the Christian and the unbeliever.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.

Newton's third life childrearing colin for every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy. - Edmond Kirsch

For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.'

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Ostensibly, the Bushes seemed to be the antithesis of their predecessors, unencumbered by rumors of marital infidelity or financial improprieties.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

The second party was directly opposed to the first; one extreme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other.

The modern antithesis of observation and reason on the one hand versus revelation and faith on the other is only tenable on the basis of a prior decision that the whole cosmic and human story has no purpose and therefore no meaning. It

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and the Festival--whether of labour or of leisure--will no longer be a basis for society.

with their minds turned agonizingly inward, people with depression are usually dangerous only to themselves. The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Opposites are cures for opposites.

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

Antonym, n. The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Thinks like oil and Water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television. ... Maybe some things aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Me and Susan.

Why have we made a folk hero of a man who is the antithesis of all our official heroes, a haunted millionaire out of the West, trailing a legend of desperation and power and white sneakers?

How else should it be done then?", was always the immediate question. The answer is simple: "Exactly in the opposite way that it is done today!

Miss Small was the opposite of her name. It was like a fat guy was named Mr. Thin or a dumb guy was named Mr. Smart or a really handsome guy was named Mr. Ugly or…well, you get the idea.

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.

Man has given objectivity to himself, but has not recognised the object as his own nature. … [T]he essence of religion … is evident to the thinker … . [T]he antithesis of divine and human is altogether illusory; … it is nothing else than the antithesis between the human nature in general and the human individual.