Discourse Quotes

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Neuter discourse is a false idol.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises