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


Octavio Paz


#change #dialectic #lies #neither #nor

And, indeed, even in the most tumultuous times, the plebiscites of the people always proceeded peacefully when the senate did not interfere, and votes were given with large majorities. The citizens having only one interest, the people had only one will. At the other extreme of the cycle unanimity reappears. This is when citizens, lapsed into servitude, have no longer either freedom or will. Then fear and flattery change voting into acclamation; people no longer deliberate, they worship or they curse.


Rousseau


#change

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.


Iain Pears


#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge

It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another.


Michael Bakunin


#dialectics #theism #anarchism

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


Theodor Adorno


#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

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

Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must be competent without fault. You may become enthralled with your identity as a professional, even the pressures of the culture of mastery that expects you to heal your clients without fail. Never mind all of the variables over which you have no control, it is up to you, according to the canons of mastery, to control the health and well-being of those for whom you provide professional care. This potentiates a furthering alienation between you and your clients. You are at risk to become, if you have not already, the one who does to your clients; to be the one the active subject acting upon the passive and receptive objects, your clients; to be the one in possession of special knowledge, technique and mastery. All of this conspires to coax or coerce you into treating your client as reduced, a mere case. Unawareness to these influences gives you little chance to consider their influence on your practice in the clinical setting, much less give attentive efforts to resist or change them.


Scott E. Spradlin


#dbt #dialectical-behavior-therapy #luce-irigaray #mastery #mental-health

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.


Fidel Castro


#i #materialist #sorry #still






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