For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time…

If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.

— Zanele Muholi

“The qualities of any individual surely rest within the core of their imperfections. How can one be determined from the other without the impurity…

— Matthew Revert

“I’ve lost my point. It was to the effect that you can assert the existence of something—Being—having not the slightest notion of what it…

— Marilynne Robinson

True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they…

— Jacques Ellul

“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 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

“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

“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

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

— Karl Marx

“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

“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

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

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

— Walter Benjamin

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

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