Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious."
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Denial
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Keith Miller
Author, Motivational Speaker
"The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself."
Mortimer Adler
Philosopher, Educator
"More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question."
John Robbins
Author, Activist
"Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable."
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman."
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"You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God."
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"Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial."
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"I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?"
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"As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love"
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"In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world."
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"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
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"All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being."
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"The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights."
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"The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves."
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"For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial."
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"There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke."
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"Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves."
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"I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred."
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"We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us"
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"Self-denial is a monkish virtue."
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"The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial."
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"She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!"
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"American society has gone completely into denial."
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"Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth."
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"Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind."
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