| With all the philosophers it is precisely the 'system' which is perishable; and for the simple reason that it springs from an imperishable desire of the human mind--the desire to overcome all contradictions. |
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Friedrich Engels |
| Alas, two souls dwell in his breast, and one seeks divorce from the other. |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
. . . this struggle is a conflict defined not by the indifference of the two sides in their distinction, but by their being bound together in one unity. I am not one of the fighters locked in battle, but both, and I am the struggle itself. I am fire and water . . . |
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G. W. F. Hegel |
From Alvin W. Gouldner, The Two Marxisms. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, Part I - "Contradiction Within Marxism," p. 1.
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