Demand Quote by Paul Ricoeur

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who…

— Paul Ricoeur

The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the…

— Leon Trotsky

Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

— Marshall McLuhan

“In nineteenth century Europe (and later in other parts of the world) the transition from a subsistence to a market economy based on the…

— Eleanor Burke Leacock

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see…

— Adrienne Rich

“The word dialectic (in dialectical behavior therapy) means to balance and compare two things that appear very different or even contradictory. In dialectical behavior…

— Matthew McKay

“Adept as he was in the Hegelian dialectic — a system easy of abuse by those who seek to dominate thought by arbitrary flights…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes…

— James Ellroy

“Hegelian dialectic, or problem, reaction, solution. This method basically involves fabricating or intensify a problem, offering a draconian solution, then settling for a “compromise”…

— Jim Marrs

“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard…

— Theodor W. Adorno

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of…

— Plato