Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?
True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Being oppressed means the absence of choices
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate -- it is absence of hate.
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.