Discourse quotes
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
"The unsaid part is the best of every discourse."
"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."
"Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear"
"The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being."
"Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it."
"Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard."
