Famous quotes containing the word contrary:
“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 (16231662)
“To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (182595)
“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 (18971960)
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