Denial Quotes
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The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.
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Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.
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The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.
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Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.
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Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.
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Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.
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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
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It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
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The only atheism is the denial of truth.
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Steady denial of feelings can confuse and enrage kis. Also teaches them not to know what their feelings are - not to trust them.
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But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
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After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.
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Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
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It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.
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To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.
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Denial is an ugly thing.
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You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.
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The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.
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Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
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Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.
