Dialectical Reason

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    What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)