thought provoking

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

“Man lives on nature—nature is his body, with which he must remain in continuous interchange if he is not to die” (CW iii, 275).

The dialectic was based on two assumptions. First, that “all things are contradictory in themselves.” Secondly, that “contradiction is at the root of all movement and life, and it is only insofar as it contains a contradiction that anything moves and has impulse and activity.”

The acorn contains within itself its own negation, and is thus contradictory. It is this contradiction, says Hegel, and only this contradiction, that allows it to grow.