Best opposites & existence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.”

Thinking Want Feels Stills I Can Facts Problem Dies Existence Hell Dying Figures Opposites Bored Bubbles Trapped Doing Nothing Wanting To Die Metaphorical Complete Opposites

Author:Matthew Healy

“Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again.”

Existence Opposites Sacred Profane

Author:Rumi

“The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.”

Soul Existence Virtue Opposites Simultaneous

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e.g. , blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.”

Way Doe Two Term Existence Cold Opposites Treats Sight Absolutes Property Absence Agents Heat Life And Death Blindness Qualifications Non Existence Two Opposites Heat And Cold

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?”

Men Giving Doe Body Common Existence Cases Particular Opposites Every Man Supposed To Be Remarkable Attorney

Book:Miss Mackenzie: Trollope's Works

Source: Miss Mackenzie: Trollope's Works

“With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence.”

“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.”

Ifs Book Soul Body Remember Forget Existence Sea Conditions Opposites Forgetfulness True Ones

Book:The Nazarene

Source: The Nazarene

“In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.”

Knows Existence Teacher Students Ignorance Concepts Opposites Absolutes Justify Considering Self Knowledge Banking Knowledgeable

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Existence Theory Balance Offers Music Is Opposites Filled Good Things Exception Joyous Bleak Respite

Author:George Carlin

“You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".”

World Giving Reason Use Order Religious Existence Forever Focus Opposites Impulse Elsewhere Here And Now

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.”

Way Kind Action Existence Written Products Perspective Essentials Essence Opposites Arguing One Way Existentialist

Author:Zadie Smith

“I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.”

World Giving Feels Beautiful Form Pay Existence Shadow Opposites Mere Extremes Debt Thank God Temperament World Is Beautiful

Book:My dear Mr. M.: letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery

Source: My dear Mr. M.: letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery

“The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”

Source: Man and His Symbols

“That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.”

Source: No Boundary, Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

“Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.”

Existence Concepts Opposites

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”

Remember Moving Memories Forget Existence Conditions Forgiveness Opposites Moving Forward

Book:The Nazarene

Source: The Nazarene

“Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me, just the opposite is the case: the society exists for the individual, the culture exists for the individual, the nation exists for the individual. Everything can be sacrificed, but the individual cannot be sacrificed for anything. Individuality is the very flowering of existence - nothing is higher than it. But no culture, no society, no civilization is ready to accept a simple truth.”

Culture Individual Nations Simple Existence Accepting Cases Taken Society Ready Higher Civilization Opposites Individuality Vices Granted Vice Versa Flowering Simple Truths

Author:Rajneesh

“Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together.”

Mind Together Night Energy Existence Subjects Objects Goes On Birth Opposites Meetings Contradiction Divided Divides Observers Deep Down Conqueror Dividing Polarity Polar Opposites

Author:Rajneesh

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