“The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.” MenWantMindWholePurposeTakenOppositesNotionSupremeGrievingBentOutrageousImposingSpoilt Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections
“The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks to diffuse the private ownership of capital instead of abolishing it entirely. It seeks to make all men capitalists instead of preventing anyone from being a capitalist by making the State the only capitalist.” MenStatesWisdomFacesPoliticsEconomyPathTakenRevolutionOppositesLiberalismCommunistCapitalistOwnershipPreventing Author:Louis O. Kelso
“The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.” ThinkingWorldFeelsFactsSexTakenMediaDrinkMembersOppositesDrinkingGrantedTeenagerAwkwardTeenageTaken For GrantedUnsure Author:Louis Sachar
“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
“True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.” SpeakSilenceTakenHumilityOppositesHumbleCreditAccomplishmentSilence IsBe HumbleTrue Humility Author:Laozi
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.” PeopleMenBelieveEndsLyingMemoriesSinTakenEternalOppositesErrorsInjusticeForgottenDeedsScalesDeceivingVengeanceOblivionRectification Author:Milan Kundera
“I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me.” SaidDoneRememberLyingBitsTakenAdviceHavensOppositesNever Lie Author:Michael Sheen
“People don't want to look at you and think, 'Oh, it must have taken her so long to get ready!' It's not as exciting to imagine. They want to imagine your life being - well, the opposite of what it sometimes is, where getting dressed is very regimented, you know? People don't want to know that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantWellsLooksLongSometimesTakenImagineReadyOppositesExcitingGetting Dressed Author:Margot Robbie
“I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of a master story, some version of the myth that resonated with me, since I could have taken more or less any detail that I wanted or the opposite and try to put that down on the page in a way that I could express from that outset for myself and for our readers what it was that was so magical about [Buckminster] Fuller's way of putting together the world.” WorldWayTryingFirstsStoriesWantedTogetherTakenMastersReaderPagesOppositesDetailsMythVersionsCaptureBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!” IfsShouldLooksMadeI CanEndsStoriesDecisionQualityTakenAdviceOffersMajorsCrossesOppositesFilledJudgedDocumentsStanding OutCavesLungsQuality Of LifeStory Of My LifeSmellyLife Decision Author:Douglas Adams
“There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.” CharacterMightTakenOppositesFlexibility Book:The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Source: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.” HumansLastsReligionCoursesRaceLibertyChristianityTakenOppositesHuman RaceTestamentNew Testament Book:Attack Upon 'Christendom' Source: Attack Upon 'Christendom'
“When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their masks, they have taken a tremendous step towards religiousness. So love, friendship, anything that helps you to drop the mask, is taking you towards religion. But the pseudo-religions have done just the opposite. They are against love. You can understand now, why they are against love: because love will destroy the personality, and the pseudo-religion depends on your personality.” LovePersonsTwoDoneHelpingGrowsLove IsStepsTakenLove YouReadyPersonalityDependsOppositesMaskFriendship LovePseudoAgainst Love Author:Rajneesh
“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.” CultureIndividualNationsSimpleExistenceAcceptingCasesTakenSocietyReadyHigherCivilizationOppositesIndividualityVicesGrantedVice VersaFloweringSimple Truths Author:Rajneesh