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That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.
— Nenia Campbell
Disease may ... be thought of as the negation of the normal.
— William Thomas Councilman
Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
— Albert Camus
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?
— John Daido Loori
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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
Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it." "You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking.
— Thomas Hardy
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
— Charles Caleb Colton
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
— Theodore Robinson
We act by virtue of what we recognize as beneficial. At the present time, negation is the most beneficial of all - and we deny.
— Ivan Turgenev
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
— Samuel Beckett
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.
— Frederick Lenz
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
— Ernesto Cardenal
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I am the spirit of perpetual negation. (Mephistopheles)
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
— Gustave Courbet
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
— Albert Pike
Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.
— H. Stuart Hughes
I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.
— Vladimir Nabokov
You can't negate negation so how can being be?
— Mike O'Connor
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
— Lupita Nyong'o
Intellect's true concern is a negation of reification.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Consensus is the negation of leadership.
— Margaret Thatcher
There is no tragedy without commitment; no negation even, without it.
— John Peter Nettl
Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.
— Sue Monk Kidd
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
— Ramakrishna
No, I didn't wait for you
or sleep much at all
or raise one hope like a rag to wipe my lost face. — Paul Guest
or sleep much at all
or raise one hope like a rag to wipe my lost face. — Paul Guest
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
— Arthur Koestler
What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?
— Andrzej Sapkowski
Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.
— Christopher Hitchens
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
— James A. Garfield
I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.
— Norman Hartnell
Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.
— Leo Tolstoy
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
— Knut Hamsun
Is not virtue a negation of becoming?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.
— Robert E. Howard
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Government is essentially the negation of liberty.
— Ludwig Von Mises
To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge