For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way.… — Plato Copy Share Image
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“We must therefore entertain the hypothesis that there is an important connection between being 'dialectical' and dreaming, just as there is between… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a… — Marina Warner 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
“Those who have been forced to study 'dialectical materialism', the strange concoction that was supposed to form the philosophical foundation of Marxism… — Eugene V. Koonin Copy Share Image
“When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who… — Scott E. Spradlin Copy Share Image
“An increased power of reflection like an increased knowledge only adds to man's affliction, and above all it is certain that for… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“Young Tchitcherine was the one who brought up political narcotics. Opiates of the people. Wimpe smiled back. An old, old smile to… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The dialectical movement of economics, politics, and military power is folding and swirling like weather. Politics is being reshaped by military failure.… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As a dialectical materialist, I do not believe that social contradictions can be solved individually. On the other hand, if you give… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is… — Aase Berg Copy Share Image
