Dialectic Quotes

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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than… — Peter Abelard
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative… — Roland Barthes
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions,… — Anthony Burgess
It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic.… — Karl Marx
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all… — Plato
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is… — Max Stirner
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short,… — Karl Barth
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder — Paul Ricoeur
The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason. — Theodor Adorno
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is… — Douglas Sirk
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot… — King Hussein I
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And… — Theodor Adorno
Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. — Audre Lorde
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world… — Robert M. Pirsig
How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the… — Isaac Asimov
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey. — Alan Hirsch

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