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Opposites5 quotes
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1994Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake · 1793The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are borne through strife. — Heraclitus · 480 BCTruly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville · 1851Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Yin and yang3 quotes
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake · 1793The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are borne through strife. — Heraclitus · 480 BCTruly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville · 1851Cold1 quote
Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville · 1851Instincts1 quote
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1994Political theory1 quote
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Politics1 quote
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Power1 quote
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Violence1 quote
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Warmth1 quote
Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville · 1851