“In his attempt to unite the Good and the True by making the Good the highest Idea of all, Plato is nevertheless usurping aretês place with dialectically determined truth. Once the Good has been contained as a dialectical idea it is no trouble for another philosopher to come along and show by dialectical methods that aretê, the Good, can be more advantageously demoted to a lower position within a "true" order of things, more compatible with the inner workings of dialectic. Such a philosopher was not long in coming. His name was Aristotle.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
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“Your logic may be good,
But dialectics never saved a soul.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Frà Domenico in Act II, sc. ix; p. 197.

“Dialectics and reflection play the same role for the philosopher as does verse for the poet.”
Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 13