“dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics!” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
“the dialectics of hunger, the dialectics of poverty. How people move from resignation and from callousness to cynicism and being beaten-down, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“In Scotland, there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners; a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear; the poverty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory;… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“Logic is also the theory of knowledge of Marxism, but for quite another reason, because the forms themselves of the activity of… — Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline,… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Glory to the logos, my friends! Long live dialectics! Let the party begin! May the verb be with you!” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image