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  • The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e.g. , blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.

    Sight   Opposites   Two  
    Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1023, Moses Maimonides
  • Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

    Lying   Two   Opposites  
  • It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

    Simple   Law   Opposites  
    "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.
  • I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.

    Opposites   Two   People  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.

    Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.269, Courier Corporation
  • My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

    "Kristin Bauer van Straten Exclusive Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 21, 2011.
  • Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.

    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.319, Penguin
  • To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

    Stupid   Opposites   Two  
  • It's kind of strange to be a free soloist when you know so much about flying, because I'm playing two opposite games, or practicing two polar opposite arts. One is the art of not falling. The other one is flying. With both those things spinning in my mind, there's a lot to process and it's pretty mind-boggling.

    Art   Fall   Opposites  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3360, Delphi Classics
  • Free will is something that people struggle with so much, but it's very simple to me. Carl Jung said at the same moment you're a protagonist in your own life making choices, you also are the spear carrier, or the extra, in a much larger drama. You've got to live with these two opposite ideas at the same time.

    Drama   Struggle   Simple  
  • Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.

    Philosophy   Humble   Men  
    Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.39, Wayne State University Press
  • When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.

    Believe   Opposites   Two  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell (1939). “The de Coverley papers”, p.55, Library of Alexandria
  • ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.

    Wise   Believe   Men  
  • Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

  • The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

    Suze Orman (2005). “The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke”, p.350, Penguin
  • In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

    Two   Opposites   Opinion  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Works ...”, p.216
  • Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

    Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.98, Penguin
  • Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.

    Opposites   Two   Ends  
  • What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.

    Real   Opposites   Two  
    Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.
  • The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.

  • When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

    Lying   Views   Opposites  
    "One side can be wrong" by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.
  • Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.

    Opposites   Two   Quality  
    "Doctrine of the Sufis". Book by Muhammed Al-Kalabadhi, translated by A.J. Arberry. Chapter 5, p. 16, 1977.
  • The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

    "Stride Toward Freedom". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., November 30, 1957.
  • Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise.

  • It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

  • Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

    Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.135, Penguin
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