Negation/definition

Famous quotes containing the words negation and/or definition:

“An “unemployed” existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

“Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
Is the eternal truth man’s fighting soul
Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?”
—Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)