Discourse Quotes
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Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.
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No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
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Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
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A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
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It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.
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I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
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I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
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For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.
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I want my paintings to give the viewer a true sense of reality - that includes but is not limited to depth, scale and a tactile surface as well as the real sense of what the subject looks like and is feeling at the time that I painted them. There should be a discourse between the viewer and the subject, to feel as though they are in a way connected. My goal is not to set a narrative but rather to have the viewer bring their own experiences to the painting and the subject as they would if they had seen the subject on the street in real life.
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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
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I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are not mutilated. Second, it once again sets up the feminist as the prosecutor of trans people. If there is any mutilation going on in this scene, it is being done by the feminist police force who rejects the lived embodiment of transwomen. That very accusation is a form of "mutilation" as is all transphobic discourse such as these.
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In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
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I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.
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As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.
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My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth and tats. His history is hinted at in Discourse, and I plan to explore it more in later books.
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Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.
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Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in a nation where respect for differing beliefs and a vibrant political discourse play an important role in shaping our government.
