It is important to note that, while research supports the idea that altruistic acts bring about happiness, it has also been found to work in the opposite direction — that happier people are also kinder.

When discussing the quality of the poem, she wrote, " I sometimes think we overwork Coleridge's idea of ' the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities.

An ongoing theme that he constantly explores is dualism, the idea that you can't understand what you're looking at unless you know its opposite.

The manifesto thus combined elements of contemporary democratic and progressive thought ( franchise reform, labour reform, limited nationalisation, taxes on wealth and war profits ) with corporatist emphasis on class collaboration ( the idea of social classes existing side by side and collaborating for the sake of national interests ; the opposite of the Marxist notion of class struggle ).

# Similarly, pleasure's opposite − pain − is universally avoided, which provides additional support for the idea that pleasure is universally considered good.

The idea is based on simple principles of projective geometry: moving synchronously and in opposite directions the X-ray tube and the film, which are connected together by a rod whose pivot point is the focus ; the image created by the points on the focal plane appears sharper, while the images of the other points annihilate as noise.

This problem led Philolaus to develop the idea of a Counter-Earth, a second, flat Earth, identical but opposite to ours in every way.

This idea was eventually expanded into the concept of a multiverse, including such worlds as Earth-Three, which was an " opposite " world where heroes were villains and historical events happened in reverse of how they occurred in real life ( e. g., President John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named Abraham Lincoln ), and Earth Prime, which was ostensibly the " real world " and used to explain how real-life DC staffers ( such as Julius Schwartz ) could occasionally appear in comics stories, and so forth.

The Greeks, moreover, will admit that even amongst those who are considered to be most largely endowed with wisdom, good fortune has had much to do, as in the choice of teachers of one kind rather than another, and in meeting with a better class of instructors ( there being teachers who taught the most opposite doctrines ), and in being brought up in better circumstances ; for the bringing up of many has been amid surroundings of such a kind, that they were prevented from ever receiving any idea of better things, but constantly passed their life, from their earliest youth, either as the favourites of licentious men or of tyrants, or in some other wretched condition which forbade the soul to look upwards.

The idea is to put most used gears opposite each other: for parking, first and reverse ; for normal driving, second and third.

In an essay entitled " The Baroque and the Marvelous Real " the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier championed the idea that the baroque is defined by a lack of emptiness, a departure from structure or rules, and an " extraordinary " plenitude of disorienting detail ( citing Mondrian as its polar opposite ).

The opposite idea of " existence precedes essence " was thus developed in the works of Averroes and Mulla Sadra's transcendent theosophy.

Then again, those who defend the opposite idea state that the new millennium started with the year 2000 ( because of the changes made to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, or because the first millennium started in 1 AD.

The idea of radical transparency does not have to diametrically opposite to the goals of privacy advocates.

It's said that it was when Swift looked across the expanse of Lough Ennell one day and saw the tiny human figures on the opposite shore of the lake that he conceived the idea of the Lilliputians featured in Gulliver's Travels.

He argues that " insofar as our world is a coeducational one, the idea of opposite sexed roommates may actually be far more ' natural ' than the idea of same-sexed roommates — except, of course, for true homosexuals ".

:" The man who wants to gain wisdom profits greatly from having thought for a time that man is basically evil and degenerate: this idea is wrong, like its opposite, but for whole periods of time it was predominant and its roots have sunk deep into us and into our world.

In the Latin it is clearer that Psychopannychia is actually the refutation of, the opposite of, the idea of soul sleep.

Disproving: Based on the idea that the majority is always wrong ( as suggested by Henrik Ibsen and John Kenneth Galbraith ), take anything that is obvious and generally accepted as " goes without saying ", question it, take an opposite view, and try to convincingly disprove it.

Everything must thus be done to ensure that the positive " autosuggestive " idea is consciously accepted by the patient, otherwise one may end up getting the opposite effect of what is desired.

In popular usage, the central feature of dialectic is the concept of " thesis, antithesis, synthesis "-when an idea or phenomenon ( thesis ) arises, it carries within itself the seed of its opposite ( antithesis ), and the interplay of these polarities leads to a synthesis which is somehow beyond the scope of either polarity alone.

Once, she was a prostitute, an outcast ; now, she is the opposite: she hovers above society in a mythic, almost goddess-like position by imposing her own " rule of law " to exact her own idea of " justice " on the town of Guellen.

However, helpmates usually use an opposite convention ; Black moves first by default and White moves are indicated with an ellipsis if no Black move precedes.

This was also the opposite of the idea of " essence precedes existence " previously supported by Avicenna and his school of Avicennism as well as Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi and his school of Illuminationism.

In essence the concept is that instead of permanent magnets, two electromagnets opposite to each other induce the magnetic field around the rotor.

The god Ptah could be opposite the sun god Re, or Aten during the Amarna period, where he embodied the divine essence with which the sun god was fed to come into existence, that is to say to be born, according to the Memphite mythological texts.

Though an alternate view is that the term was coined by the Czech art historian Antonin Matějček in 1910, as the opposite of impressionism: " An Expressionist wishes, above all, to express himself ... ( an Expressionist rejects ) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures ... Impressions and mental images that pass through mental peoples soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence are assimilated and condense into more general forms, into types, which he transcribes through simple short-hand formulae and symbols.

Nicknames fell into several categories: names based on an event, names based on a physical characteristic, names based on a pun, and names listing a characteristic that was the opposite of the character of the person given that name, in essence, a joke nickname.

This frees the souls of Water, and after both groups of souls swarm off Prince's essence is seen descending on the coast of North America ( Fire and Water turn out to have been in the same solar system as Earth, but on the opposite side of the sun ).

Whereas it was common in the philosophy of the time to see the conditional subject as abstract and the object as concrete, Gentile postulated the opposite, that the subject is the concrete and the object is an abstraction ( or rather, that what was conventionally dubbed " subject " is in fact only conditional object, and that the true subject is the ' act of ' being or essence of the object ).

God is an essence and is subtle, matter is the opposite or negation of God.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

Directly opposite the door was a roaring log fire, a welcome sight on that bitterly cold day.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.

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But the weight of feeling was heavily in the opposite direction.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

True, there had been raids on Naples -- but Naples was pretty far north on the opposite coast.

One week before the convention, Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson, gazing at the opposite shore.

Bill Weigand was good and tired of the wall opposite, and the crack in the plaster.

The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out, by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot.

Indeed most biblical scholarship is in agreement that Judeo-Greco-Roman thought in the 1st century was opposite of the Western world's " individual first " mantra – it was very collectivist or communitarian in nature.

This originated a deadly feud between the leaders of the opposite parties, for Joab, as next of kin to Asahel, was by the law and custom of the country the avenger of his blood.

One theory holds that Agade was situated opposite Sippar on the left bank of the Euphrates, and was perhaps the oldest part of the city of Sippar.

Actium ( Greek: Ἄκτιον ) was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius ( Gulf of Arta ) opposite Nicopolis, built by Augustus on the north side of the strait.

The current through a recharging battery is opposite to the direction of current during discharge ; In other words, the electrode which was the cathode during battery discharge becomes the anode while the battery is recharging.

The republic should pay a bakshish to the Turkish governor of the Morea and to the Voevode who was stationed at the frontier of Thermisi ( opposite Hydra ).