Opposites Quotes — Page 28

Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

“Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.”

Believe Opposites Cases

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

“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)?”

Beautiful Angel Opposites

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Tommy Lee

Musician, Drummer

“Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.”

Children Sometimes

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Seth

Musician

“Try is the opposite of hiding.”

Trying Opposites

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.”

Men Party Opposites

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Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

“Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he himself tells you to let them go and walk in simplicity? To hang on to him as if to make a method of him is to contradict him and to go in the opposite direction to the one in which he would have you travel.”

Book Opposites Simplicity

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Tim Ferriss

Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster

“If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.”

Opposites What If Defining

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Simone Weil

Philosopher, Activist

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

Soul Opposites Virtue

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spiritual Leader

“Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.”

Play Games Opposites

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spiritual Leader

“Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens”

Trying Energy Opposites

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Stephen King

Author

“And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”

Believe Opposites Sadness

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“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.”

Ideas Lying Opposites

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