Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher “excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous” Hands Opposites Glasses ♥ 3
George Orwell Writer, Journalist “I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.” Years Civilization Opposites ♥ 3
George Santayana Philosopher, Poet “Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.” Wise Opposites Balance ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.” World Order Opposites ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.” Book Church Opposites ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.” Knows Interesting Opposites ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.” Children Laughing Opposites ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.” Answers Silence Opposites ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.” Opposites Balance Christianity ♥ 3
Graham Swift Author “My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.” Opposites Upbringing ♥ 3
Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist “In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.” Practice Opposites Vicious ♥ 3
Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist “If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.” Opposites Boss Often Is ♥ 3
