Dialectic Quotes
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Christopher Hitchens
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert Smithson
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
Paul Ricoeur
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 the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
Paul Ricoeur
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno