The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof…

The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the…

— Leon Trotsky

It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.

— Ambrose

“Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering under swell of glory in the shade…

— Erik Pevernagie

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of…

— Plato

“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“Hegelian dialectic, or problem, reaction, solution. This method basically involves fabricating or intensify a problem, offering a draconian solution, then settling for a “compromise”…

— Jim Marrs

I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes…

— James Ellroy

Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the…

— William Blake

“Adept as he was in the Hegelian dialectic — a system easy of abuse by those who seek to dominate thought by arbitrary flights…

— Ludwig von Mises

“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 dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see…

— Adrienne Rich

“In nineteenth century Europe (and later in other parts of the world) the transition from a subsistence to a market economy based on the…

— Eleanor Burke Leacock

Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

— Marshall McLuhan

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate…

— Joe Lonsdale