Dialectician Quotes

#1. The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

Richard M. Weaver

#2. He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician's invention.

Emil Cioran

#3. A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

Steve Lacy

#4. What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts.

Walter Benjamin

#5. God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#6. Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

Evan Esar

#7. All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

W.C. Fields

#8. The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short ... Give them enough to take action

Claude C. Hopkins

#9. Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.

Thomas Huxley

#10. Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?

Beth Moore

#11. Leave the rest to the gods.

Horace

#12. To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.

Thomas Aquinas

#13. The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It's like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.

Naomi Novik

#14. His laughter was a low rumble that vibrated through her as he rolled her beneath him. "I like you like this," he murmured against her lips. "Sleepy and sweaty and disheveled. Sexiest fucking thing in the world.

Kit Rocha

#15. My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

Gore Vidal

#16. I hate the bigotry you believe in. But I'll try not to hate you."
"Why?" he asked. His voice was cold, as she remembered it.
"Hate eats the hater," she quoted from a familiar text of the Telling.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. I personally like being a guy.

Steve Lonegan