The pairs of opposites are torn asunder, the resulting division or strife leads to disaster, for the unconscious soon begins to intrude itself violently upon the conscious processes.
The dissolution of the compromise between the two halves of a pair of opposites increases the effectiveness of the contrast.
This view corresponds exactly with my own way of understanding the theory of the libido, in attempting to keep the true balance between the two psychological opposites of introversion and extroversion.
A dissolution of the pairs of oppositesin the personality sets in if, through the assimilation of the unconscious, the collective psyche be included in the inventory of the personal mental functions.
How far the collective psyche contains these pairs of opposites is shown by primitive peoples, whose great virtue is praised by one observer; whereas another observer of the same race reports only the worst impressions.
Alongside the pairs of opposites already alluded to that are so particularly evident in the neurotic, viz.
Enantiodromia is the being torn asunder into the pairs of opposites, which opposites are only proper to "the god," and therefore also to the deified man, who owes likeness to God to his having prevailed over his gods.
What appears to mortals from their standpoint to be the necessity for evil, is proven by the law of opposites to be without necessity.
Human hypotheses predicate matter of Spirit and evil of good; hence these opposites must either cooperate or quarrel throughout time and eternity,--or until this impossible partnership is dissolved.
Thus it is in the case of those opposites only, which are opposite in the sense in which the term is used with reference to affirmation and negation, that the rule holds good, that one of the pair must be true and the other false.
In short, where there is no sort of combination of words, truth and falsity have no place, and all the opposites we have mentioned so far consist of simple words.
Pairs of opposites which fall under the category of relation are explained by a reference of the one to the other, the reference being indicated by the preposition 'of' or by some other preposition.
It is a universal rule that each of a pair of opposites of this type has reference to that to which the particular 'positive' is natural.
Pairs of opposites which are contraries are not in any way interdependent, but are contrary the one to the other.
The terms of the two series are respectively complimentary to each other; the violet dominates the two groups of opposites and is a visible member of the axis formed by the colours that might be called neutral.
This Reason is not the ratiocinative faculty in man which conditions him as a duality; it is rather more as a Divine Monad, as Pure Reason, or that which can hold all opposites in one.
The Door is the Door of the Two in One, the state of equilibrium of the opposites which opens out into the all-embracing consciousness and understanding of all oppositions.
All opposites unite in Wisdom as a ground; she is the pure substance in which all the powers play.
Though for such as are opposites to the coming of Christ's kingdom, as it is a contradiction to the second petition of the Lord's prayer, (thy kingdom come.
For opposites always throw light upon each other, and the day at once reveals both itself and the night, as Spinoza admirably remarks.
Opposites throw light upon each other, and therefore the remark may be in place here, that the proper opposite of the sublime is something which would not at the first glance be recognised, as such: the charming or attractive.
This can be done only by a science of understanding which recognizes matter and mind and all opposites and contradictions as formalities of the universe.
The commonplace logic will hardly listen to the demonstration of the unity of such apparently wide opposites as truth and untruth.
Truth and error differ only comparatively, in volume of degree, like being and seeming, life and death, light and dark, like all other opposites in the world.
If you would become world-wise, you must learn that the things called opposites and contradictions have a different meaning than is ordinarily applied to them by the logic of the idolators.
The Apostle begins his fervid catalogue of vanquished foes by a pair of opposites which might seem to cover the whole ground--'neither death nor life.
These oppositesare parted by a distance to which the millions of miles of the world's path among the stars are but a point, and yet the love of God streams down on them alike.
Anaxagoras has taken from Heraclitus the idea that in every Becoming and in every Being the opposites are together.
A quality is set continually at variance with itself and separates itself into its opposites: these opposites continually strive again one towards another.
Regal powers and military commands, nobility of birth and political office, wealth and influence, and their opposites depend upon chance and are, therefore, controlled by circumstances.
Hegel said: Yes, but the true notion of spirit is that of the resolution of contradiction, of the exhibition of opposites as held together in their unity.
Theological study had henceforth nothing to do but to avoid extremes and seek to make this image, which reflexion upon two polar opposites had yielded, as nearly thinkable as possible.
Secondly, among the opposites which material processes thus bridge over, the opposition of being and not-being is never to be found.
The particular laws of nature are necessary, not because their opposites are logically absurd, but because these laws are most in accordance with the general principles of good and order, in agreement with which God chooses.
The truths of reason are necessary, and their opposites impossible; while those of fact are contingent, and their opposites possible.
Truths whose opposites are impossible have metaphysical and mathematical necessity.
There are truths which are eternal, truths which are absolutely necessary, because their opposites involve contradiction.
This vertical line is the neutral axis joining the poles of white and black, which represent the opposites of light and darkness.
Indeed, the centre of the circle stands for a middle gray, not only because it is the centre of the neutral axis between black and white, but also because any pair of opposites will unite to form gray.
Opposites of equal value and chroma (R 5/5 and BG 5/5).
Vary by using the two opposites of any color chosen for the dish and omitting the two neighboring colors.
Next comes the question of opposites in this circle.
These pairs of oppositesare so many aspects of the great opposition between ideas and phenomena--they easily pass into one another; and sometimes the two members of the relation differ in kind, sometimes only in degree.
He does not imagine the world of sense to be made up of opposites or to be in a perpetual flux, but to vary within certain limits which are controlled by what he calls the principle of the same.
In the Bhagavad-Gita the pairs ofopposites play a great part.
Aversion and hate, the opposites of desire and love, are not independent affections but depend upon the latter.
The pairs of oppositeshave been noticed in the Hindu doctrine of salvation exactly as in alchemy.
The basis of the opposites is formed by the primal opposition Rajas-Tamas.
It is impossible to convey an idea of the torrential character of the identification of opposites as it streams through the mind in this experience.
The knowledge of opposites is one,' is one of the hegelian first principles, of which the preceding are perhaps only derivatives.
No number of opposites to a quality we have never directly experienced could ever lead us positively to infer what that quality is.
But that which is done in obedience to reason we call duty; duty, then, is a thing of that sort, that it must not be ranked either among the goods or among the opposites of goods.
From which it follows that duty is a sort of neutral thing, which is not to be classed either among the goods or among the opposites of goods.
We find here the same doctrine of opposites which appears in the Phædo, and which has come up again and again in philosophy.
Its defects and merits are, both, the polar oppositesof those of China.
Three out of twenty opposites were not given, apparently on account of the lack of knowledge.
For instance, on the antonym test, where opposites to twenty stimulus words are called for, Birdie gave them in the remarkably rapid average time of .
Reaction times on the antonym test, giving the opposites to words, were very low; average 1.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opposites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
