#dialect

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

#break #coercion #dialectic #logic #means

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#antagonism #dialectical #equilibrium #evil #extremes

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#another #dialect #hard #only #perfected

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ↗

— Emily Carr

#big #born #dialect #different #half

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

#been #dialectic #give #giving #i

dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet. ↗

— Tony Judt

#art

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#i #materialist #sorry #still

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so. ↗

— William Labov

#been #dialects #hundred #studied #well

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. ↗