Contrary

Famous quotes containing the word contrary:

“I borrowed today out of the Advocate’s Library, David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, but found it so abstruse, so contrary to sound sense and reason, and so drearying its effects on the mind, if it had any, that I resolved to return it without reading it.
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—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.... He does not have to struggle ... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.”
—Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)