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)

“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)