Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
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Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To "see the ...
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To 'see the ...
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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.
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