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• To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mean, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

  Max Stirner

  Selfish, School, Merit

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• A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

  Susan Sontag

  Discovery, Idols, Lust

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.330, Macmillan

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• The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Imagination, Together, World

  Immanuel Wallerstein (2011). “The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, With a New Prologue”, p.357, Univ of California Press

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• Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

  Ken Wilber

  Plain Language, Progress, News

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.185, Shambhala Publications

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

  Paul Ricoeur

  Events, Demand, Testimony

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• There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.

  Mao Zedong

  Believe, People, Favors

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• How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Men, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (1952). “Triangle: The currents of space; Pebble in the sky; The stars, like dust”

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• Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters

  Audre Lorde

  Creativity, Differences, Creative

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• It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.

  Ambrose

  People

  Saint Ambrose, Aeterna Press (2016). “Exposition of the Christian Faith”, p.13, Aeterna Press

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• I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Soul, Three, Four

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1998). “Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero”, p.37, Regnery Publishing

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• These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Military, Struggle, Law

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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.

  King Hussein I

  Hands, Growth, Links

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• Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Self, Long

  "Cultural Criticism and Society". Essay by Theodor Adorno (1949), reprinted in his book "Prisms", 1967.

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• There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!

  Stuart Stevens

  Running, Brother, Dark

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• A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

  Alan Hirsch

  Journey, Church, Missional Church

  Alan Hirsch, Tim Catchim (2012). “The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church”, p.169, John Wiley & Sons

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• Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities.

  Kenny Smith

  Thinking, Years, Intuition

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• Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time-while the other dudes hold onto the wire. Which is not to say that no one has tried to dispense with wires. Many have, and sometimes it works-but it doesn't feel like jazz when it does. The music simply drifts away into the stratosphere of formal dialectic, beyond our social concerns.

  Dave Hickey

  Song, Nice, Two

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• Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

  Bertolt Brecht

  Dog, Morning, Book

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• In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Philosophy, Passion, School

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Criticism, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

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• [Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.

  Edward Said

  Islamic, Oil, Roots

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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

  Art, Ongoing, Landscape

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

  Susan Sontag

  Emotional, Needs, Passionate

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.174, Macmillan

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• I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a good frolic in the sack, the kind who'll tear hell out of a thick steak, and yet who can go to the ballet with me and discuss Hegelian dialectic and know what the hell he's talking about.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Talking, Giving

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