“The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.” NeedsMayIdeasSpiritLyingGreaterBalanceTruth IsIntellectualOppositesConstantVaryThrustReposeDistortion Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion. More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy things. Just the opposite of cynicism and despair, his end is eternal life.” EndsHandsSpiritGrowsUnderstandingHolyDespairEternalOppositesSacredConstantHoly SpiritCompanionCynicismEternal LifeHoly Places Author:D. Todd Christofferson
“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?” PeopleTryingHas BeensSchoolYoungTurnsStruggleCreativeTakenStudentsCollegeTrainingEnlightenmentTestsOppositesConstantTrainEducationalDebtPassingPassingsConformityTrapsInquiryImposingIndoctrinationEducational SystemConstant StruggleVocational TrainingPassing A Test Author:Noam Chomsky
“What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside, can seem more like constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others, because they reside in far too private a chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily trouble, but often the opposite. To have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.” SeemsDifficultRiskTroubleOppositesFoundationConstantDareRefusePrioritiesHave FaithChamberPersonal Experiences Author:David Whyte
“We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.” RealityOppositesConstantAccidentsExceptionStability Author:Gabriel Orozco
“The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.” IfsLifeFeelsSoulBodySpaceFictionForeverMouthsOppositesMajorityConstantBoundsTeethNervousAffectedMisfortunesDislikeRejoiceSystematicNervous SystemImpunityPhysical BodyDuplicity Author:Boris Pasternak
“There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.” IfsMenYearsSaidDoneHandsWantedWaitingHoursBehindsKnownFiveCircumstancesLateOppositesConstantFive YearsToo LateSteelCautionHammersRealisedBoyhoodGood WomanHammeredBehind My Back Book:Eona Source: Eona
“Repel the thought, for if you don't, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don't it will become a desire. So fight against that(desire), for if you don't, it will become a determination and a passion. And if you don't repel that, it will become an action. And if you don't replace it with its opposite, it will become a constant habit. So at that point, it will be difficult for you to change it.” IfsIdeasWisdomActionDesireFightingPassionDifficultHabitDeterminationOppositesConstantIslamicIslamic Wisdom Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya