Discourse Quote by Richard M. Weaver Download Open image “Neuter discourse is a false idol.” — Richard M. Weaver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discourse Idols
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth… — C. P. Scott Copy Share Image
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it… — Lynne Cheney Copy Share Image
Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.” — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ...… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared,… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig 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 discourse by… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the… — Anne Enright 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 welcome after… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become… — Jim James Copy Share Image
