Discourse Quotes
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.
Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.
I do think women change the discourse in Senate and I think it is more civil when women are involved.
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.
The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.
Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.
Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.
Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.
...civility doesn't require consensus or the suspension of criticism. It is simply the ability to disagree productively with others while respecting their sincerity and decency.
If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.
Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.
Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.
What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.
Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams
The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.
Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.
The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.
He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".
Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".