Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or…

— Marina Warner

When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more…

— Plato

“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.”

— Walter Benjamin

Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the…

— Herbert Marcuse

“The dialectical movement of economics, politics, and military power is folding and swirling like weather. Politics is being reshaped by military failure. Military failure…

— Stan Goff

“The word dialectic (in dialectical behavior therapy) means to balance and compare two things that appear very different or even contradictory. In dialectical behavior…

— Matthew McKay

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

— Karl Marx

“An increased power of reflection like an increased knowledge only adds to man's affliction, and above all it is certain that for the individual…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Those who have been forced to study 'dialectical materialism', the strange concoction that was supposed to form the philosophical foundation of Marxism in the…

— Eugene V. Koonin

Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent…

— Herbert Marcuse

“When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour…

— Scott E. Spradlin

Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it…

— Nicolae Ceausescu

“Young Tchitcherine was the one who brought up political narcotics. Opiates of the people. Wimpe smiled back. An old, old smile to chill even…

— Thomas Pynchon

The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing…

— Frederick Lenz

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape,…

— Aase Berg