Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned."
Negation quotes
Negation
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth."
Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"Consensus is the negation of leadership."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation."
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