The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty 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
It seems to me that rumors and dreams of justice are part of a dialectic of injustice and dreams of justice will… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any… — Maggie Nelson 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
“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one… — Michael Bakunin Copy Share Image
I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that… — John Lennon 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
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international… — Hendrik Hertzberg 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
Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or… — Kenny Smith 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
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am… — Larry Charles Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that -… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing… — George Wald Copy Share Image
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
