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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.
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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.
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.
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.
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
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.
What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
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.
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.
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.
Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.
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.
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.
Government is essentially the negation of liberty.
Is not virtue a negation of becoming?
I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
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.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
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.
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.
If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
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.
Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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.
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.
Consensus is the negation of leadership.
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
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.
Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.
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.
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
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.
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.
The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.
Life is best when lived your way and not as a negation of what you don't like.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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.
