Quotes About Dialectics

Indeed, what could God be if His being could be circumscribed, let alone demonstrated by human dialectics and ratiocination?

Intellect's true concern is a negation of reification.

The late Franz Borkenau once said, after he had broken with the Communist Party, that he could no longer put up with the practice of discussing municipal regulations in the categories of Hegelian logic, and Hegelian logic in the spirit of meetings of the town council.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

For Hegel, philosophy intervenes politically by making clear the relations that already exist.

Chapman, M. (1992). Equilibration and the dialectics of organization. In H. Beilin & P. B. Pufall (Eds.), Piaget's theory: Prospects and possibilities (pp. 39–59). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive evolution: Origins and development of Piaget's thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapman, M. (1992). Equilibration and the dialectics of organization. In H. Beilin & P. B. Pufall (Eds.), Piaget's theory: Prospects and possibilities (pp. 39–59). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

Marx inverted Hegel's dialectics and stood it right side up, on its feet.

The Universal City will be realized when a son of the Kirghiz steppes waters his horses in the Loire, and a Sicilian peasant plants cotton in Turkmen valleys. Small wonder the writer smiles at propaganda that cries for a freeing of colonies from the grasp of imperialistic powers. Oh, how cunning dialectics can be, and how artfully it can accomplish its ends, degree by degree!

Marx and Engels visualized a day when there would be unity among men instead of opposition, peace instead of war. Such a hope, of course, violated their own theory of dialectics which says nothing in nature can be at rest—everything is a unity of opposing forces.

Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

It is impossible to be an anti-Communist and it is not possible to be a Communist.

Apreender a diferença em termos dialéticos é tornar aparentes os termos contraditórios a serem resolvidos. Entender a realidade social em termos do materialismo dialético é apreender as oposições entre classes, termo a termo, e fazer com que se encontrem na mesma cópula (um conflito na ordem social), o que também configura uma resolução (uma abolição na ordem social) das contradições aparentes.

The alternative to dualism is dialectics: that is to say, love

Den Satz des Widerspruchs zu vernichten ist vielleicht die höchste Aufgabe der höheren Logik

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.