Alan Watts Quotes, Opposites Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

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

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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

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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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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

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

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Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

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I've done a lot of independent film, which are short shoots that are usually four to six weeks, max. I enjoy everything. After one particular experience of work, I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.

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Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

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I think it's fair to say that [Donald Trump] and I are sort of opposites in some ways.

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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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