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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz / Poet
Learning
Wisdom
Lying
Two
Between
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Lies
Neither
Nor
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor W. Adorno /
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Logic
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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
Paul Ricoeur / Philosopher
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Identity
Movement
Narrative
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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
Paul Ricoeur / Philosopher
Testimony
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Interpreted
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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert Smithson / Artist
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Finished
Landscape
Objects
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Parks
Repose
Static
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Park
Suggest
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Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
Emile Durkheim / Sociologist
Causes
Proof
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Deeply
Dialectic
Shaken
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Octavio Paz / Poet
Wisdom
Constant
Momentary
Coming
Dialectic
Lies
Neither
Nor
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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.
John Kenneth Galbraith / Economist
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Enterprise
Labor
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States
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I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
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Philosophy
Teaching
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Armed
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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.
Hussein Of Jordan /
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Poverty
Stability
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In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'
Joe Lonsdale /
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Opposites
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Wisest
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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 / Author
Advice
May
All My Life
Interested
Dialectic
Give
My Life
Taking
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To be in the woods is a special thing. And also just the concept of wilderness as a necessary opposite in a kind of global dialectic. I want there to be wilderness where there are no humans in a world like this. So nature is super important.
David Longstreth /
Humans
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Woods
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Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.
Joe Lonsdale /
Difficult
Hard
Overconfident
Pushing
Team
Change Great World
Bit
Bad
Change Great Always
Bad Thing
Believing
Change The World
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