“Dialogics is a method of thinking as a whole and a rejection of wroldviews that recognize the right of a higher consciousness to make decisions for lower ones, to transform persons into voiceless things.†– Iris M. Zavala
“Dialogue here is not the threshold to action, it is the action itself. It is not a means for revealing, for bringing to surface the already-made character of a person; no, in dialogue a person not only shows himself outwardly, but he becomes for the first time that which he is – and, we repeat, not only for others but for himself as well. To be means to communicate dialogically. When the dialogue ends, everything ends.†– Mikhail Bakhtin
“A single voice ends nothing and resolves nothing. Two voices is the minimum for life, the minimum for existence.†– Mikhail Bakhtin
“In truth, memory does not any longer represent our past for us; it plays with it.†– Henri Bergson
… The truth is that memory does not at all consist in a regression from the present towards the past, but on the contrary in a progression from the past towards the present.†– Henri Bergson
“Knowledge no sooner starts from scratch, by way of a stabilizing objectification, than it will distort the objects. Knowledge as such, even in a form detached from substance, takes part in tradition as unconscious remembrance; there is no question that we might simply ask without knowing of past things that are preserved in the question and spur it.†– Theodor W. Adorno
“Creative understanding does not renounce itself, its own place in time, its own culture; and it forgets nothing. In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside of the object of his or her creative understanding – in time, in space, in culture.†– Mikhail Bakhtin