Certainly the philosophies and the negations dwindled to be so small as at last to disappear, and to leave only the two antagonists.
It is not upon the paltry level of negations or of decent philosophies, it is in the action and hot mood of creative certitudes that the French battle is engaged.
His praise consists much in negations; but in a comparative estimate, perhaps negations ought to count for a good deal.
Thus strangely did his evening life oscillate between the two peaceful negations of grannie's parlour and the vital gladness of the unknown lady's window.
It may perhaps be best not to include negations in the same genus as things themselves, since, to avoid mingling several genera, we often do not include affirmations.
The historical continuity of the critical negations of Paine with the past is represented in his title.
The force of Paine's negations was not broken by any weakness for speculations of his own.
There was necessarily some resemblance between negations dealing with the same narratives, but a careful comparison of the books leaves me doubtful whether Paine ever read Allen.
Yet the next moment, stung by his independence of her, she denied that she loved him; she had only longed for a moral support under the negations of her life.
I don't measure my force by the negations in me, and think my soul must be a mighty one because it is more given to idle suffering than to beneficent activity.
While numbers in a mathematical sense are positions and negations of Nothing, in the philosophical they are positions and negations of the Eternal.
Numbers are, accordingly, not positions and negations of an absolute nothing, but of a spiritual act.
For the truth is that our affirmations and negations do not stand on the same footing at all, and are anything but consubstantial.
Yet obvious as this necessity practically is, thousands of innocent magazine readers lie paralyzed and terrified in the network of shallow negations which the leaders of opinion have thrown over their souls.
The ego is to be described by negations alone, the incomprehensible, imperishable, unattached, unfettered; the ego neither suffers nor fails.
As there are distinctions and differences in positive entities by illusory impositions, so negations are also distinguished by similar illusory impositions and appear as the negation of jug, negation of cloth, etc.
It is such a man as this who liberates mankind, cutting us clear of make-believes and negations and taboos, and living in the open-air, whether it is cloud or sun.
These latter have been ascribed to the mind, which, moreover, we have adorned with properties whose emptiness is manifested by the fact that they are all mere negations of that which we know.
Rousseau was the conscience of France, which rebelled against the negations and the bald emptiness of the materialistic and atheistic doctrines.
The first great work excited alarm by the sharpness of its negations and its destruction of dogmatic metaphysics, which to its earliest readers appeared to be the core of the matter; Kant was for them the universal destroyer.
The religious negations of Ausonio Franchi do not stop at Christian dogma.
There may be an ideal halting-place, there is neither a logical nor an actual one, between Romanism and the ordinary negations of Protestantism.
They are always real, because they concern the existence of substance (negations are only determinations, which express the non-existence of something in the substance).
And he himself, in this very book, denies not a few propositions usually regarded as among the most marked examples of truths whose negations are inconceivable.
The negations of these alleged invariable beliefs are not unbelievable, for they are believed.
These universal and unchanging facts are, by the hypothesis, certain to establish beliefs of which the negations are inconceivable; whilst the others are not certain to do this; and if they do, subsequent facts will reverse their action.
Hence if, after an immense accumulation of experiences, there remain beliefs of which the negations are still inconceivable, most, if not all of them, must correspond to universal objective facts.
In closing this chapter, I cannot forego the pleasure of citing Count de Gasparin apropos of the learned negations of Babinet and his emulators of the Institute.
Its wage-slaves will either sink into heathen slavery, or seek relief in theories that are destructive not merely in method but in aim; since they are but the negations of the human appetites of property and personality.
The somewhat arrogant negationsof the last generation are now out of place; they were never, in the strict sense, scientific, and they are now demodes.
The human mind seems unable to remain satisfied with the negations which systematised common sense seeks to impose upon it.
It seemed to him even stranger in clergymen than in others, because clergymen are Christians, and, to Eddy’s view, there were no negations in that vivid and intensely positive creed.
Yes, they all hated something; they all rejected; all recognised without shirking the implied negations in what they loved.
The habit of thinking as a crowd is so widespread that it is impossible to trace the influence of its rationalistic negations in the daily mental habits of most of us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
