A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard 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
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics!” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.” — Mouloud Benzadi 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
“dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.” — Tony Judt 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
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
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
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
These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of… — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.… — Bill Ayers 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
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and… — Karl Barth 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
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
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
In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I… — Richard Rodriguez 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
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
I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline,… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Logic is also the theory of knowledge of Marxism, but for quite another reason, because the forms themselves of the activity of… — Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“Glory to the logos, my friends! Long live dialectics! Let the party begin! May the verb be with you!” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“Indeed, what could God be if His being could be circumscribed, let alone demonstrated by human dialectics and ratiocination?” — George Steiner Copy Share Image
People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. — Cory Booker 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
The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
