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Ernst Bloch, "The Dialectical Method":
The idiot never notices that everything has two sides. He works with wooden ideas, with simple uniform ideas at which he can stop for breath and in which nothing happens. If he were to think a thought through to its end, he would notice that a struggle is taking place, that objections arise within which enrich it and disarrange its content.
A is not always A, B must also be posited, and it is precisely consistency which shows B to be the contradiction. Above the consequent span C arises as apex and unity; that is until C splits too, and a new unity of contradictions emerges in irresistible dialectical development.
Buckminster Fuller:
Actual thought never runs in straight lines, like thought which is fixed, cut and dried, in which nothing expands or changes and which is therefore incapable of doing justice to transformation.
Goethe: Propagat. Gemmation, 1829:
Thought moves in triangles. These triangles, consisting of contradiction, unity, new contradiction, new unity, and so on, do not need to be schematically traced out each time. That would be incompatible with the free agility of elastic thought.
Klee's Notebooks:
Indeed, the triangle is not the only possible form, more contradictions than just this A and B are possible and they do not all have to refer to the same point of unity. But reliable, actual thought never takes a straight course, rigid and unchanged, like the rhythm of the nodding head of the pagoda or the dreadful, monomaniac, thoroughly undialectical thought of the madman. A man who continually entangles himself in contradictions is not for that a dialectician. If he cannot find his way out of the contradictions, he is much more a charlatan and, in the end, a perfect image of chaos.
But thought which seeks a viable course, set on finding solutions, without going through the dialectical turn in which no determination is complete in itself, lands in chaos from the other side, namely in the chaos of rigidity. It cannot comprehend what is living and on the terrain of transformation there is no other with its fixed clumsiness, it will always stumble.
Goethe, Spiral growth of Vegetation, 1828
"The Dialectical Method" was published as Chapter Nine of Ernst Bloch's Subject-Object. Erlauterungen zu Hegel, 1951.
A TRIANGLE IS A SPIRAL AND IS ONE ENERGY EVENT
A page from M.N Roy's Reason, Romanticism and Revolution:
M.N. Roy in A.D. Reader Pt. 2:
MOre Klee:
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