Dialectics Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

My nerves did a jitter dance, stuck between two wolves. — Jazz Feylynn

We therefore conclude that no philosophy and no system of life produced by human thought can have
the characteristic of "comprehensiveness." At most, it can cover a segment of human life and can be valid
for a temporary period. Because of its limited scope, it is always deficient in many respects, and because of
its temporariness it is bound to cause problems that require modifications and changes in the original
philosophy or system of life. Peoples and nations basing their social, political, and economic systems on
human philosophies are forever confronted with contradictions and "dialectics." The history of European
peoples is an example of such a process. — Sayed Qutb

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics. — Mason Cooley

What is history if not one endless assault on love? — Casper Silk

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. — Rudy Giuliani

Money opens jaws — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away? — Del Shannon

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy. — Anne Robinson

How true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason,
Reason none,
If what parts, can so remain. — William Shakespeare

They also learned that not everything broken could be fixed, and that not everything ruined could be thrown away. Sometimes the damaged things were all you had to work with. — Diane Hammond

Now, as it happens, theology is actually a pitilessly demanding discipline concerning an immense, profoundly sophisticated legacy of hermeneutics, dialectics, and logic; it deals in minute detail with a vast variety of concrete historical data; over the centuries, it has incubated speculative systems of extraordinary rigor and intricacy, many of whose questions and methods continue to inform contemporary philosophy; and it does, when all is said and done, constitute the single intellectual, moral, spiritual, and cultural tradition uniting the classical, medieval, and early modern worlds. — David Bentley Hart

Dialectics is the philosophy of opposites."
I thought about this. "How do you make a philosophy out of opposites?"
"Well, you know how people are. They like to see things in black and white? Up or down, male or female?"
She had my attention now. "Uh-huh."
"Well, dialectics says that's all bullshit. That life is not about opposites, but about finding the balance between all these extremes."
I tried to sound less interested than I actually was. "How do you do that?" I said. "Find balance, I mean?"
"By paying attention," she said. "By trying to see how everything also contains its opposite." She took a drag on her cigarette. "Because if you live your life at the extremes, you go nuts. If you want to make any sense out of the world, you have to live in the gray."
"That sounds hard," I said.
"The hell yes it's hard," she said. "People don't like gray. It makes people uncomfortable. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch
a small mixture of reproach with a great deal of kindness — Jane Austen

At Latham House, we were asked to believe in unlikely miracles. In second chances. We woke up each morning hoping that the odds had somehow swung in our favor.
But that's the thing about odds. Roll a die twice, and you expect two different results. Except it doesn't work that way. You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It's only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely.
Here's something I know because I'm a nerd: up until the middle of the twentieth century, dice were made out of cellulose nitrate. It's a material that remains stable for decades but, in a flash, can decompose. The chemical compound breaks down, releasing nitric acid. So every time you roll a die, there's a small chance that it won't give you a result at all, that instead it will cleave, crumble, and explode. — Robyn Schneider

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends. — Zoe Kravitz

The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, — Sharon Salzberg