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“I am the spirit that negates.
And rightly so, for all that comes to be
Deserves to perish wretchedly;
'Twere better nothing would begin.
Thus everything that that your terms, sin,
Destruction, evil represent��
That is my proper element.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust - Part One

“The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Упорствование в стремлении оправдать Сталина эффективностью управления и экономическими успехами; призывы «не ворошить прошлое», дабы не разрушить с таким трудом добытую «стабильность»; отказ признавать реальное число жертв, хотя эти цифры в значительной мере установлены, вообще настойчивое предпочтение мифов реальности �� все это защитная реакция, рациональная только отчасти.

Чтобы защититься от тяжести сталинского наследства, индивидуальное и общественное бессознательное ищет заслоны, схроны, лазейки, выстраивает сложные механизмы дистанцирования и остранения, зеркалит обращенные к нему вопросы и обвинения, упрекая во внутренних проблемах выдуманных врагов, Запад, «бандеровцев» или «национал-предателей». Но, как говорят психологи, важно ставить такого больного перед лицом фактов �� заставлять смотреть, приучать к сознанию того, что он болен и нуждается в лечении.”
― Николай Эппле

“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly naked, and more questionable aspect. The contraction of man's horizons amounts to a denudation, a stripping down, of this being who has now to confront himself at the center of all his horizons. The labor of modern culture, whenever it has been authentic, has been a labor of denudation. A return to the sources; "to the things themselves," as Husserl puts it; toward a new truthfulness, the casting away of ready-made presuppositions and empty forms - these are some of the slogans under which this phase in history has presented itself. Naturally enough, much of this stripping down must appear as the work of destruction, as revolutionary or even "negative": a being who has become thoroughly questionable to himself must also find questionable his relation to the total past which in a sense he represents.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“One can not, without absurdity, indefinitely sacrifice each generation to the following one; human history would then be only an endless succession of negations which would never return to the positive.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“People often talk about and criticize the life of others to forget the failures and the negations in their own lives!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“With respect to modern civilisation and society, it may indeed be said that nothing possesses a more revolutionary character than Tradition, which — in proper and Hegelian terms  — constitutes the ‘negation of a negation��: for the latter is what, through ‘progress��, has desecrated everything and subverted every normal order, leading us to the state we find ourselves in today.”
― Julius Evola, A Handbook for Right-Wing Youth

“Accepting the nonexistence of being,
when the absence of existence means the negation of being.”
― Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression

“This is what democratic societies understand; they strive to confirm citizens in the feeling of their individual value; the whole ceremonious apparatus of baptism, marriage, and burial is the collectivity's homage to the individual; and the rites of justice seek to manifest society's respect for each of its members considered in his particularity.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Wenn wir einsehen, dass das Urteilen nicht über dem Gegensatz von 'ist' und 'ist nicht' stehen kann, ziehen wir also nicht die Schlussfolgerung, dass das Urteilen zwei entgegengesetzte Formen hat, 'ist' und 'ist nicht'. Vielmehr folgern wir, dass es Ablehnung, Verneinung, Nein-Sagen ist. Das Urteilen ist nicht die unendliche Kraft, das Sein zu erfassen, sondern die universale Kraft zu Verneinen, auszulöschen, zu zermalmen. Die Kraft des Urteilens zur Negation ist universal, weil seine Idee von sich selbst als verneinen a priori ist, das heißt rein. Das Urteilen versteht sich selbst als Verneinen, indem es sich selbst in seiner absoluten Abstraktion erfasst. Da dieses Selbstverständnis von nichts Gegebenem abhängt, ist es absolut. Darum ist das Wort, das den Begriff des Gegenstands des Urteils ausdrückt, wie er im Selbstbewusstsein des Urteilens verstanden wird, »Nichts«. Während »nicht« der Spezifizierung dessen, was negiert werden soll, bedarf, gibt »Nichts« die Universalität des Verneinens wieder, als das sich das Urteilen selbst versteht.”
― Sebastian Rödl

“In all these forms of disavowal, nay-saying and denial, what is at work is not a dialectic of negativity or the 'work of the negative'. It is no longer a question of a thought critical of reality, but of a subversion of reality in its principle, in its very self-evidence. The greater the positivity, the more violent is the - possibly silent - denial. We are all dissidents of reality today, clandestine dissidents most of the time.
If thought cannot be exchanged for reality, then the immediate denial of reality becomes the only reality-based thinking. But this denial does not lead to hope, as Adorno would have it: 'Hope, as it emerges from reality by struggling against it to deny it, is the only manifestation of lucidity.' Whether for good or for ill, this is not true.
Hope, if we were still to have it, would be hope for intelligence of - for insight into - good. Now, what we have left is intelligence of evil, that is to say, intelligence not of a critical reality, but of a reality that has become unreal by dint of positivity, that has become speculative by dint of simulation.
Because it is there to counter a void, the whole enterprise of simulation and information, this aggravation of the real and of knowledge of the real, merely gives rise to an evergreater uncertainty. Its very profusion and relentlessness simply spreads panic. And that uncertainty is irredeemable, as it is made up of all the possible solutions.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

“I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems of understanding, of domination, no, I would work to allow the world its right to illegibility, to move in darkness. To take shape in its contact with people but to remain essentially itself. In the country, I would overcome this final difficulty at last, renounce my will to knowledge, give up my attachment to expression, and in this way come to understand the meaning of things.”
― Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

“No, I didn’t wait for you
or sleep much at all
or raise one hope like a rag to wipe my lost face.”
― Paul Guest, Notes for My Body Double

“Така вже безвихідність усіх, хто хоче заперечити світ. Давні святі теж проклинали й покидали його, натомість неминуче створюючи свій власний світ, свого бога.”
― Валер'ян Підмогильний, Повість без назви

“Going through all these quotations, it may be thought that the critics are justified in charging Zen with advocating a philosophy of pure negation, but nothing is so far from Zen as this criticism would imply. For Zen always aims at grasping the central fact of life, which can never be brought to the dissecting table of the intellect. To grasp this central fact of life, Zen is forced to propose a series of negations. Mere negation, however, is not the spirit of Zen, but as we are so accustomed to the dualistic way of thinking, this intellectual error must be cut at its root. Naturally Zen would proclaim, "Not this, not that, not anything." But we may insist upon asking Zen what it is that is left after all these denials, and the master will perhaps on such an occasion give us a slap in the face, exclaiming, "You fool, what is this?" Some may take this as only an excuse to get away from the dilemma, or as having no more meaning than a practical example of ill-breeding. But when the spirit of Zen is grasped in its purity, it will be seen what a real thing that slap is. For here is no negation, no affirmation, but a plain fact, a pure experience, the very foundation of our being and thought. All the quietness and emptiness one might desire in the midst of most active mentation lies therein. Do not be carried away by anything outward or conventional. Zen must be seized with bare hands, with no gloves on.”
― D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“Zen is forced to resort to negation because of our innate ignorance (avidya), which tenaciously clings to the mind as wet clothes do to the body. 'Ignorance' is all very well as far as it goes, but it must not go out of its proper sphere. 'Ignorance' is another name for logical dualism. White is snow and black is the raven. But these belong to the world and its ignorant way of talking. If we want to get to the very truth of things, we must see them from the point where this world has not yet been created, where the consciousness of this and that has not yet been awakened and where the mind is absorbed in its own identity, that is, in its serenity and emptiness. This is a world of negations but leading to a higher and absolute affirmation--an affirmation in the midst of negations. Snow is not white, the raven is not black, yet each in itself is white or black. This is where our everyday language fails to convey the exact meaning as conceived by Zen.”
― D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“Protestantism, like the modern world, is built upon mere negation, the same negation of principles that is the essence of individualism; and one can see in it one more example, and a most striking one, of the state of anarchy and dissolution that has arisen from this negation.”
― René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

“Vagueness is often a virtue; a god lives in a cloud; truth cannot be put on one's finger-tip. The darkness of night is beauty; that is only another view of the light of day.”
― Yoné Noguchi, The spirit of Japanese poetry

“The ultimate destination of this practice of negation is to see through and release even the attachment to the process of negation itself, allowing the full experience and truth and of what they are to be embraced. Many students reach this crossroad and find themselves unsure of how to proceed. We extend our hand to you, honoring the dedication of your soul, and invite you in to embrace The Way of All. This path encompasses everything, while acknowledging and honoring the inherent freedom that is truly available to you. It allows for action rooted in a soul-based, engaged, and invested self.
We are here to encourage you and say that there is meaning, and You are the meaning.”
― Gwen Juvenal, "The Seed" Journal: A Space for Recording Your Soul Experiences and Expansive Journeys

“Often, when someone gets engrossed in the focused endeavor of deconstructing ideas and beliefs, they may lose a sense of meaning. They may lose sight of the inherent Light that exists at the source and remains present and available, even amidst the practice of “stripping away the false,�� to find their true essence.
At this time, we recommend that anyone here, attracted to or involved in this practice of negation, stripping away the false, to embark and reclaim your dedication to yourself and pivot into a new way. The old ways of this practice have long been detrimental to many human psyches, and the profound depth of the pathway of negation are not often fully comprehended by those who embark upon it.
In its place, we offer the practice of “re-knowing��, which will be demonstrated within various Soul Play experiences to come. This new approach is rooted in a space of self-loving negotiation and offers balance to the system of the practitioner.”
― Gwen Juvenal, "The Seed" Journal: A Space for Recording Your Soul Experiences and Expansive Journeys

“Theory must, as a dialectical one �� like the Marxist one, by far and away �� be immanent, even when it ultimately negates the entire sphere in which it moves.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics