Dialectical Reason

Famous quotes containing the words dialectical and/or reason:

    “The Frenchman Jean-Paul ... Sartre I remember now was his last name had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)