Quotes About Dialectics

#1. But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis. - Author: Maggie Nelson

#3. In place of dialectics, life had arrived. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Dialectics is Satan's favorite tool. - Author: Stefan Boldisor

#5. For the time being you, too, are toying, out of despair, with your magazine articles and drawing-room discussions without believing in your own dialectics and smirking at them with your heart aching inside you - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Until the early middle years of the sixteenth century, when King Henry VIII began to quarrel with Rome about the dialectics of divorce and decapitation, a short and swift route to torture and death was the attempt to print the Bible in English. It's - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#7. Arabs are a burden on the world and should be annihilated. - Author: Richard Gere

#8. Once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it in to your awareness and it starts to become true to you. - Author: Anita Moorjani

#9. Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. - Author: J. Paul Getty

#10. Don't ever kid yourself with too much dialectics. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,

#11. It is a great blessing to wake each day and give thanks to God. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future
for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived. - Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

#13. There should be celebration rallies when people die ... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death. - Author: Mao Zedong

#14. It's our faith that activates the power of God. - Author: Joel Osteen

#15. In Scotland, there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners; a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear; the poverty of the country makes itself remarked, and a coarseness of manners; and, among the intellectual, is the insanity of dialectics. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Sometimes suffering is a weird attraction. - Author: Pete Docter

#17. Dialectics, as a veteran communist explained ... 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet. - Author: Tony Judt

#18. Why only twelve disciples? Go out and get thousands. - Author: Samuel Goldwyn

#19. The dialectics of hunger, the dialectics of poverty. How people move from resignation and from callousness to cynicism and being beaten-down, and anger and self-destruction ... and finally to anger and violence which can become very creative in the process. - Author: Anonymous

#20. Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. - Author: Michael Pollan

#21. Art is there for nourishment, not explication. - Author: Walter Darby Bannard

#22. People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. - Author: Cory Booker

#23. Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me. - Author: Malala Yousafzai

#24. These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible. - Author: Ulrike Meinhof

#25. Rather than incorporating study into life, I've done the opposite. I've turned life into study. Where events take me? That's what I dive in to learn. - Author: Silver RavenWolf

#26. It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people. - Author: Ambrose

#27. It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another. - Author: Mikhail Bakunin

#28. Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me. - Author: David Mitchell

#29. Glory to the logos, my friends! Long live dialectics! Let the party begin! May the verb be with you! - Author: Laurent Binet

#30. Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. - Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#31. 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. - Author: Walter Benjamin

#32. But the fact is, again and again in my lifetime, the vicious vituperations, the polemics, the dialectics, the sophistries of politics have become vapour and mist, while what remains is the literature and the art, which at the time might have been merely tolerated by the politicos. - Author: Doris Lessing

#33. Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase. - Author: Madame De Stael

#34. Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics! - Author: Laurent Binet

#35. Marx inverted Hegel's dialectics and stood it right side up, on its feet. - Author: David Harvey

#36. Don't that make your bosom plim? - Author: Thomas Hardy