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“The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!”

World Stills Earth Moral Morality Rounds Philosopher Sail Sailing Another World Antipodes

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Interesting Philosophical Thoughtful Very Interesting Profile Inverted Antipodes

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Long Body Past Motivation Sin Men And Women Punishment Evident Torment Visionaries Asceticism Sightseeing Antipodes

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?”

Ifs Men World Believe May Fall Growing Tree Feet Higher Rain Garden Foolish Backwards Babylon Rain Falling Antipodes

Author:Lactantius

“There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry of Rumi and talk about wine, women and song. Or something like that." This kind of attitude. This is the antipode of the other attitude which says Islam is nothing but throwing bombs, it has nothing to do with internal or inward purification.”

“The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.”

World Long Ideas Real Sometimes Reason Edges Disappear Ships Staring Reason Why Eggs Flats Horizon Orange Adventurous Sailor Discworld Discs Over The Edge Edge Of The World Antipodes

Author:Terry Pratchett

“We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.”

Ifs Should Time Walks Sun Absence Antipodes

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage

“The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools.”

Giving Book School Found Church Prison Charity Entertainment Hospitals Association Philanthropy Constructs Philanthropic Inns Antipodes

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.”

Ifs Men Should Has Beens Earth Sides Walks Sun Feet Ocean Should Have Opposites Originals Scary Regions Pairs Adam Ancestor Should Have Been Fables Descendants Credible Sun Rise Antipodes

Author:Saint Augustine

“Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.”

Source: The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel

“To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.”

States Able Effort Accepting Violence Cost Instinct Oneself Liberalism Exception Rejects Miraculous Imperatives Neighbour Defiance Exhausting Renounce Antipodes

Author:Emile M. Cioran