Life Quote by Leon Trotsky

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

— Theodor Adorno

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the…

— Herbert Marcuse

Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the…

— William Blake

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

— Alan Watts

“Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Our understanding of the sociology of knowledge leads to the conclusion that the sociologies of language and religion cannot be considered peripheral specialties of…

— Peter L. Berger

The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms…

— Friedrich Engels

“In his excellent and extremely comprehensive text, Engestrom (1991) locates Vygotsky's ideas within a dialectic approach, which was undoubtedly the framework that Vygotsky himself…

— Michael F.D. Young

Mysticism is the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even…

— John Macarthur

"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than…

— Kenny Smith

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

— Paul Lockhart