Quotes of: Contrary Keyword

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Traditional

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Baruch Spinoza

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Jan Morris

Sam, Sam, quite contrary, bought a budgie, wanted a canary. Sam, Sam, quite contrary, kissed Suzannah, meant to kiss Marry. Sam, Sam, quite contrary, dressed as a pirate, playing a fairy. Sam Sam quite contrary, ate dark chocolate, says he likes diar...

Now You See Me, Now You: Poems

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions th...

Saint Basil

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Saint Augustine

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Elaine Dundy

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Richard Le Gallienne

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Alcibiades

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

Walter Salles

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

Dora Russell

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Jack Kevorkian

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Blaise Pascal

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when broug...

Voltaire

Racism watching is a puzzle solving activity and often involves debunking pseudo-science. The investigator must try to figure out what makes people believe in weird ideas. As Stieg said in an interview, ‘Fifty years later, people still believe in t...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire

Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.

Jacques Derrida

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about...

Wallace Shawn

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the mode...

Killosophy

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Claude Debussy