Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. — Marshall McLuhan 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
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it — Paul Ricoeur 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
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno 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 my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering under swell of glory in… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Adept as he was in the Hegelian dialectic — a system easy of abuse by those who seek to dominate thought by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In its rational form [dialectic] is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors, because it includes in its comprehension… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The word dialectic (in dialectical behavior therapy) means to balance and compare two things that appear very different or even contradictory. In… — Matthew McKay Copy Share Image
“The dialectic of antiquity tended towards leadership (the great individual and the masses--the free man and the slaves); so far the dialectic… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“In nineteenth century Europe (and later in other parts of the world) the transition from a subsistence to a market economy based… — Eleanor Burke Leacock Copy Share Image
“Hegelian dialectic, or problem, reaction, solution. This method basically involves fabricating or intensify a problem, offering a draconian solution, then settling for… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a… — Audre Lorde 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