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)

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)