“One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.” RealGivenFiguresProductsOppositesFunctionMarkProductionsIdeologicalProliferationInvert Author:Michel Foucault
“For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.” ChildrenEndsStatesGovernmentSpiritFoundChurchInfluenceModernCenturyTheoryOppositesFunctionClaimsRevolutionaryRemoveEducateSovereignBehalfContradictoryChurch And StateAbsolutism Author:Lord Acton
“I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveProblemPastI BelieveSexHurtKnow HowGayOppositesFunctionBeen Hurt Author:Joyce Meyer
“I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).” ActionLawViewsRaceOpinionGenerationsConnectionsOppositesFunctionValuableConnectedDeterminedAriseBranchesClosestAdaptationRapidsMaintenanceReciprocalPhysiologicalHeredityEmbryosRecapitulation Author:Ernst Haeckel
“Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil--only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.” PeopleBodyLife IsPurposeUniverseEvilGreaterDyingOppositesFunctionRipGreater Good Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.” ThinkingMenFirstsLooksMaySaidDifferentSeemsMightPurposeWiseDesignKeysFitShapesOppositesFunctionUselessLocksGlancesExaminationTrue NatureLock And Key Book:Mistborn Trilogy Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.” PeopleIfsLanguageTalkingClearCommunicationTerribleOppositesLet MeFunctionErrorsGrammarTransparentCorrectingFacilitateClear Communication Author:John Green
“I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.” ThinkingNeedsEconomyOppositesFunctionBurdenAdministrationRegulationPrivate Sector Author:Dick Cheney
“I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you inside yourself have been able, through awareness, to transform your hate into love. Even to say that you have been able to transform it is not right, but what else to do with language? Whatever you say, something is wrong in saying it, something goes wrong in saying it. The fact is, awareness itself transforms your hate into love, not that you transform it. Your work and function is simply to remain aware. Don't let anything happen in your life without awareness.” WorldLoveHas BeensFactsHappensAbleRememberHateLanguageAwarenessOppositesFunctionThings HappenWhatever You Say Author:Rajneesh
“Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his consciousness.” MenWayGivingMeanStatesDoneForceSleepConsciousnessMeditationMachinesOppositesFunctionUnconsciousnessUndoing Author:Rajneesh
“I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.” PoliticalLostGenerationsOppositesFunctionPolitical SystemsYounger Generation Author:Enki Bilal