Discursive Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

• 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 institutional conditions, do certain biological… — Judith Butler
• Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander… — Natalie Goldberg
• The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of… — James Jordan
• The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this… — Jerome Bruner
• If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic… — 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 and of numerical constants; and… — Johannes Kepler
• When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to… — Juan Goytisolo
• There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second… — Thomas de Quincey
• For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… — Donna Tartt
• [B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and… — Alan Bennett
• Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. — Alan Bennett
• Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of… — John Fiske

Who Wrote These Discursive Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Discursive Quotes as follows:

• 2 Discursive Quotes by Alan Bennett
• 1 Discursive Quote by A. R. Ammons
• 1 Discursive Quote by Judith Butler
• 1 Discursive Quote by Natalie Goldberg
• 1 Discursive Quote by James Jordan
• 1 Discursive Quote by Jerome Bruner
• 1 Discursive Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine
• 1 Discursive Quote by Johannes Kepler
• 1 Discursive Quote by Juan Goytisolo
• 1 Discursive Quote by Thomas de Quincey
• 1 Discursive Quote by Donna Tartt
• 1 Discursive Quote by John Fiske