dialectical thinking

  • The Analects – Chapter 9.8

    Confucius said, “Do I possess knowledge? No – I am actually ignorant. Once, a rustic man asked me a question; his mind was completely empty. My own mind was equally blank, so I simply examined the issue from both ends and exhausted its meaning.”

  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 22

    The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new. He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray.Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of humility), and manifests it to all the world. He is free from self- display, and therefore…