Opposites Quotes — Page 44

Artist, Scientist, Inventor

“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”

Men Opposites Hemisphere

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Leonardo da Vinci

Artist, Scientist, Inventor

“The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.”

Eye Opposites Mirrors

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.”

Truth Opposites

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Heraclitus

Philosopher

“There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.”

Communication Opposites

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FU

Fred Upton

Politician

“The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.”

Quality Opposites Obamacare

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KS

Kenny Smith

Basketball Player

“All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.”

Eye Issues Opposites

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Lewis Carroll

Author, Mathematician

“As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.”

Opposites Gentleman Misunderstood

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LM

Lewis Mumford

Philosopher, Author

“Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer and more complex patterns of activity; an esthetic heightening of anticipated realizations; a steady lengthening of the future; a faith in cosmic perspectives.”

Love Faith Opposites

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JT

James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

“I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.”

Writing Opposites Pages

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.”

Real Opposites Equality

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.”

Opposites Transformation Nonsense

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.”

Order Artist Opposites

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