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)

    “I like well the ring of your last maxim, “It is only the fear of death makes us reason of impossibilities.” And but for fear, death itself is an impossibility.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)