Opposites Quotes - Page 26

• The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Long, People

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2005). “The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be”, p.58, Crown Archetype

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• To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Men, Looks

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.55, 谷月社

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• The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Mirrors, Use

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.

  George Steiner

  Freedom, Brutality, Four

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.311, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Animal, Trying, Vegan

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• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Humility, Self, Exaltation

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• One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

  John Fowles

  Order, Rose, Chaos

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Sex, Believe, Men

  Giacomo Leopardi, Ángel Flores (1966). “Poems and prose”

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• The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

  John Berger

  Love, Hate, Together

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

  Madame de Stael

  Sight, Afterlife, Divine Wisdom

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• Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

  Frederic Raphael

  Velvet, Television, Soup

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• The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

  Ruth Benedict

  Humanity, Culture, Adequate

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.470, Transaction Publishers

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• The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Music, Spring, Fall

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• In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

  Rick Mercer

  Growing Up, Political, United States

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

  Max Weber

  Evil, Good And Evil

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• What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a good will, in the former an evil one. It springs also from the thoughts, in the former case evil thoughts, in the latter from the opposite; and similarly from actions, in the former case actions contrary to God, in the latter godly ones... it is by free choice of the will that every person either attains compunction and humility, or else becomes hard-hearted and proud.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Spring, Humility

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• What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is satisfying for one person may be just the opposite for someone else. Being out in nature, by the seashore, or on a mountaintop works for me. Communing with nature brings me into soul time. But for others, being out in nature is something to be tolerated, or even an ordeal, or just what you do if you're a member of a family that goes camping.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Nature, Soul, Camping

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• As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that covers a lot of other things as well. I think there's an Informel element in Beuys, as well; but it all began with Duchamp and chance, or with Mondrian, or with the Impressionists. The Informel is the opposite of the constructional quality of classicism - the age of kings, or clearly formed hierarchies.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Kings, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Reading, Attention Deficit Disorder

  "I Am Just a Reader" by Deborah Plummer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

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• The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Men, Views

  Aristotle (2016). “Metaphysics”, p.274, Aristotle

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• I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, Thinking, Doubt

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• One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Country, Wall

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• We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

  Murray Walker

  Race, Situation, Olympic Games

  "First and last: Murray Walker". Interview With Nick Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2005.

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• Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

  Diogenes

  Two Sides, Two, Sides

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• When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

  Tim Allen

  Smart, Very Smart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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