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Quotations
 | I feel very optimistic about the future of pessimism. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 10 likes |
 | You cannot be a hero without being a coward. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 9 likes |
 | There is strong shadow where there is much light. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 9 likes |
 | Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 8 likes |
 | It is old age, rather than death, that is the opposite of life. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 7 likes |
 | The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 6 likes |
 | As government expands, liberty contracts. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 5 likes |
 | You can't be envious and happy at the same time. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 5 likes |
| In order to understand the dance you must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness you must dance. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
 | The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 4 likes |
 | Often the best in us springs from the worst in us. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 4 likes |
 | It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 4 likes |
 | Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | As the best Wine makes the sharpest Vinegar, so the deepest Love turns to the deadliest Hatred — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
| Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
 | Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 3 likes |
 | To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 2 likes |
 | The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 2 likes |
 | Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 2 likes |
 | Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 2 likes |
| God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 2 likes |
 | Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 2 likes |
 | You think you are modest. I did not know you so proud. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 2 likes |
 | We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. — Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian writer 2 likes |
 | Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician 1 likes |
 | As the best wine do make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns in to the deadliest hate. — John Lyly, 1554-1606, English writer 1 likes |
 | It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of our own ignorance. |
 | A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself. |
 | The same sun that melts butter hardens clay. |
 | If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us. |
 | Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. |
 | All passions love what feeds them. Fear loves the idea of danger. |
 | What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. |
| It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. |
 | Lovers have a way of using this word “nothing” which implies exactly the opposite. |
 | Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. |
 | I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. |
| Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. |
 | The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him. |
 | People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. |
 | Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom |
 | My entire life has been determined by two competing ideas: the top and the bottom. |
 | The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural. |
 | "Never" is not the opposite of "late". The opposite of "late" is "too late". |
 | Joy and sorrow, beauty and ugliness, equally pass away. |
 | The opposite of love is fear, not hate. |
 | Where there is no longer room for doubt, there is no longer room for faith either. |
 | You need the dark in order to show the light. |
 | If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. |
Funny Quotes
 | Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, while Marxism is the opposite. — Henri Jeanson, 1900-1970, French critic & columnist 8 likes |
Stupid Quotes
 | I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | There cannot be good without evil, but in their mixture things may turn out well. Ουκ αν γένοιτο χωρίς εσθλά και κακά, αλλ’ έστι τις σύγκρασις, ώστ’ έχειν καλώς. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Aeolus 34 likes |
 | Slaves and master could never be friends. Δούλοι γαρ και δεσπότης ουκ αν ποτέ γένοιντο φίλοι. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | The opposites are the cures of the opposites. Τα ενάντια τοις εναντίοις εισίν ιάματα. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 7 likes |
Proverbs
 | Loss and profit are brothers. 9 likes |
 | The reverse side also has a reverse side. 3 likes |
 | Fire is a good servant but a bad master. 3 likes |
 | To estimate the sweet, you must taste the bitter. 3 likes |
