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Negation Quotes

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

Max Scheler
Judgment, Valuation, Negation
Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

Niels Bohr
Hallmark, Negation
"Mind from Matter: An Essay on Evolutionary Epistemology". Book by Max Delbruck, March 5, 1986.

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

Terry Eagleton
Democracy, Socialism, Negation
Terry Eagleton (2011). “Why Marx Was Right”, p.202, Yale University Press

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Samuel Beckett
Solitude, Proust, Negation
Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Ludwig von Mises
Government, Liberty, Negation

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Margaret Thatcher
Leadership, Consensus, Negation
"Los Angeles Times Interview : Margaret Thatcher : The Lady's Not Made for Ducking a Tough Question". Los Angeles Times Interview, articles.latimes.com. November 28, 1993.

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

Dalai Lama
Buddhism, Negation, Absolutes
Source: www.motherjones.com

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Veronica Roth
Pride, People, Abnegation

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

Theodore Robinson
Drawing, Painting, Negation

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

Mahatma Gandhi
Christianity, Negation, Western
Mahatma Gandhi (1924). “Young India: 1919-1922”

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Karl Marx
Law, Capitalist, Negation
Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.837, Cosimo, Inc.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

Robert E. Howard
Agony, Negation, Sensations
Robert E. Howard (2016). “ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more”, p.267, e-artnow

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