“Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites”
Plato
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
“Opposition is true friendship.”
William Blake
“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.”
Laurence Shames
“The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”
Ayn Rand
“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”
Andy Warhol