#dialectic

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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

— Octavio Paz

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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

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

— Theodor Adorno

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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist. ↗

— Fidel Castro

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

— Robert Smithson

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When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour and cynical tend to begrudge their high need clients for their neediness. There is a risk that helpers become too well-practiced at taking a bleak view of those they have avowed to assist. There is a temptation to begin to blame clients for their failure to improve. If treatment ends pre-maturely, with either a client never returning to treatment or a helper 'firing' them out of frustration, there is a tendency for the client to take the fall. Of course what we are talking about here are signs of burnout. ↗

— Scott E. Spradlin

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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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