Dialectic Quotes

40 quotes by 35 authors

Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free… — Dave Hickey
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. — Ken Wilber
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it — Paul Ricoeur
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard
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 else they can… — Kenny Smith
The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of… — Bill Vaughan
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . — Robert Smithson
A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution. — Catherine Ryan Hyde
My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. — Susan Sontag
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured… — Evelyn Underhill
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a… — Iain Pears
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. — Judith Lewis Herman
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. — Plotinus
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. — Octavio Paz
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. — Emile Durkheim
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen of metaphors. — Anatole Broyard
The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily… — Leon Trotsky
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily… — Leon Trotsky
Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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