Communication Quote by Terry Nardin Download Open image ““The degeneration of conversation into monologue, dogmatic assertion, is barbarism.”” — Terry Nardin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication
“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.” — Albert Vigoleis Thelen Copy Share Image
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses — Margaret Miller Copy Share Image
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
“Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences… — David Bowker Copy Share Image
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“practices are displayed only in performances: a practice is the trace, the residue, of its performances. Practices are not "stable compositions of easily recognized… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree, there and… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities to which… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not an atomic,… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.” — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“The demand for moral uniformity is more often practical than theoretical, a demand for moral certainty where none is possible. It is, for Oakeshott,… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance or "fortune"-explains… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
