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.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

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.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

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

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.