Negation Quotes

• 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
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Ideals

• 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.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Suffering
  • Severe
  • Negation

• 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.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Women
  • Children
  • Faith

• Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Art
  • Society
  • Individual

• The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Truth
  • Buddhism
  • Absolutes

• The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Desire
  • Passionate
  • Sake

• 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.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Sake
  • Affirmation
  • Abstention

• Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Imperialism
  • Negation

• The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert itself by rejecting the Not-Self. Consciousness, in fact, consists of this alternating assertion and negation - "I am this" - "I am not this." Hence consciousness is, and causes in matter, the attracting and repelling that we call a vibration.

  

  Arthur E. Powell
  • Consciousness
  • Assertion
  • Negation

• Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

  

  Charles Hartshorne
  • Doctrine
  • Arbitrary
  • Deism

• I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

  

  Norman Hartnell
  • Beautiful
  • Simplicity
  • Negation

• Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.

  

  William Thomas Councilman
  • Disease
  • Normal
  • Negation

• Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
  • Moments
  • Participation
  • Negation

• Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Democracy
  • Socialism
  • Completion

• 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.

  

  Richard Phillips
  • Fashion
  • Capacity
  • Negation

• What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Atheism
  • Negation
  • Name Of God