Best opposites & given Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush

“Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.”

Has Beens Given Women Powerful Taught Enlightenment Weakness Weak Opposites Description

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.”

Thinking Reason Truth Belief Given Term Education Mankind Possibility Opposites Extremes Likes

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“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.”

Real Given Figures Products Opposites Function Mark Productions Ideological Proliferation Invert

Author:Michel Foucault

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at any given historical moment, ... the fathers of pragmatism made the satisfaction of the subject the criterion of truth. For such a doctrine there is no possibility of rejecting or even criticizing any species of belief that is enjoyed by its adherents.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“Is it ok to sometimes be shy?Yes, of course. The point is,that being that way all the time and using it as an excuse to never be the opposite of shy,it's not good. It's not good for your life, your interactions,strenght of character and how diverse and interesting you can be. You are MORE than shy. Don't be labeled, be what you wanna be in any given moment. And DO what WORKS, not what you think you are.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Moments Character Courses Given Interesting Opposites Excuse Shy Be You Interaction Diverse Strenght

Author:Matthew Hussey

“A given circle cannot be so true that a truer one cannot be found; and the movement of a sphere at one moment is never precisely equal to its movement at another, nor does it ever describe two circles similar and equal, even if from appearances the opposite may seem true.”

Ifs May Doe Two Moments Seems Found Given Movement Equal Opposites Appearance Circles Spheres

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?”

Want Feels Able Beautiful Spirit Given Imagine Angel Built Opposites Weight Foundation Boards Bells Towers Wretched Venice Elevation Scaffolding Tenements Loving Friends

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share of the bottom half from three to roughly five percent. Unfortunately, the trend is going in the opposite direction.”

World Today Three Given Wealth Half Poverty Five Share Percent Opposites Overcoming Bottom Available Income Trends World Today

Author:Thomas Pogge

“I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.”

Thinking Sometimes Reality Used Suffering Hate Given Easier Concepts Opposites Absolutes Embrace Complexes

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in.”

“She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.”

Made Strong Given Felt Decision Fire Changed Pride Lovers Consequence Opposites Ashamed Making Decisions

Author:Isabel Allende

“The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.”

World Way Jesus Given Opposites

Book:Swami Vivekananda on Himself

Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself

“We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.”

Two Body Given Wife Opposites My Wife Tongue Wit Similarity

Author:Kyle Bradley

“I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.”

Ifs Given Fronts Tasks Opposites Add Focused Disorder Hyper

Author:Jared Leto

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