Dialectics

(my recommendations)

Thinking as a Science

by Henry Hazlitt, 1916


"I, too, have a pet little evil, to which in more passionate moments I am apt to attribute all the others. This evil is the neglect of thinking. And when I say thinking I mean real thinking, in­de­pen­dent thinking, hard thinking."

An Essay on Criticism

Alexander Pope, 1709


"A little learning is a dangerous thing

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring

There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,

And drinking largely sobers us again."

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

Mark Twain, 1882


"An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie."