15 Negation Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Octavio Paz

Character Reality Hypocrisy Thinking Negation Consists Finds Disagreeable Also Because Affects Trait Irrational Repugnant Aspects

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. Alexander Haig

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life Death Negation Worse Existence Itself Unemployed Than

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. Ivan Illich

Health People Medicine Sick Negation More Only More People Institution Heals Makes Itself Than Modern Human Human Health Organized Serve Medical

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Positive Mind Thought Negation State Complete Possible Silent Totally Only Come Empty Opposite Nor Being Different Which Then

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. Gustave Courbet

Painting Negation Visible Ideal Essence Representation Realism Forms

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. Mariella Frostrup

Women Worth Girl Own Too Negation Relationships Rather Attributes Around Than Romantic Confirmation Formed Them Far Many

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. Simone Weil

Faith Reality Made Mysteries Negation Degraded Object Contemplation Affirmation Should

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will. Douglas Coupland

Will Baby Negation Gen Point Forced Being Against Whole

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. Emil Cioran

Needs Freedom Overcome Mind Negative Long First Negation Our Once Ourselves Only Habit Exert Fruitful Acquired Us Adapt

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people. Ko Wen-je

Politics People Opportunity Society Negation Marks Civic Rise Involvement

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out. Octavio Paz

Work Time Nature Technology Man Radical Every Changes Negation Our Out Horizon More Neutral Throws Environment Between Sterile Course Same Modern Same Time Modern Man Decisive Us Manner Bridge Now

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience. Tyler Cowen

Life Experience World Meal Negation Our Pleasures Unnecessary Bad Unpleasant About More Share Learn Refine Than Taste Just Rewarding Rewarding Experience Wasted Chance Mediocre

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