A.C. Grayling Quotes, Believe Quotes, Opposites Quotes

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

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To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

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Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

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Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

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But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

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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.

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As long as the National Socialist Movement is leading Germany-and that will be the case for the next few centuries, no matter how often our emigrants conjure up the opposite view- this opinion will not change.

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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

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I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

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I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

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What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

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A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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