Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead. — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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 have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say.… — James Newman Copy Share Image
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research… — Abhinavagupta Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors… — Neil Steinberg Copy Share Image
“The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does. — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have. — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal Copy Share Image