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
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
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
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
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
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 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
We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and… — Leah Ward Sears Copy Share Image
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck 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
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
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
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
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
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
To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse.… — Robin Lakoff Copy Share Image
This type of discourse in the campaign is just unwarranted. But it was started by Ms.[Hillary] Clinton. Ms. Clinton has started the… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at… — George Combe Copy Share Image
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's fair game. But, you know, I don't… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people /… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that… — Etgar Keret 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
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
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
“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
If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when… — Noam Chomsky 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
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy,… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image