I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse). — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato Copy Share Image
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot… — George Soros Copy Share Image
And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I've been in love with you for weeks.' There's no such thing,' she says. 'It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy.'… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in… — Chris Carter 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
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he [Joseph Black] performed this useful and dignified office.… — Henry Peter Brougham Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Think about it. Politics is just a name for the way we get things done ... without fighting. We dicker and compromise… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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