It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate.… — Swami Anand Milarepa Copy Share Image
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate. — Hozier Copy Share Image
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When your Islamic discourse with someone becomes a debate, that's when you know that you have to stop. The psychology of a… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Jay-Z's a guy that wears the Che Guevara t-shirt and he doesn't realize Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image