More Discursive Quotes

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• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. — A. R. Ammons
• I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and… — Judith Butler
• Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself… — Natalie Goldberg
• The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in… — James Jordan
• The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds.… — Jerome Bruner
• If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say… — Willard Van Orman Quine
• The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants… — Johannes Kepler
• When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings… — Juan Goytisolo
• There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach;… — Thomas de Quincey
• For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a… — Donna Tartt
• [B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.… — Alan Bennett
• Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and… — John Fiske

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