Negation Quotes
Negation Quote of the day
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.
Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.
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.
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.
The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.
To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.
Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.
A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
Accepting the nonexistence of being, when the absence of existence means the negation of being.
