Quotes About Discourse

Probablemente en otras épocas abundaron las porquerías tanto como en la nuestra, pero en ninguna tuvieron los discursos que las justifican y alaban popularidad semejante.

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective "natural" without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive us. From natural borders to natural religion.

What is "rational" consists in prolonging life, avoiding pain, satisfying the appetite for hunger and sex. Only some such definition sheds any light on the discourse of the last centuries.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Realism about human beings nonetheless compels us to recognize that logical rigor and philosophical soundness carry little weight in civic discourse. They simply cannot stir up sufficient fervor, at least not among a large enough population, to drive mass movements. These movements, even the most virtuous, apparently need a dose of irrationalism to keep going.

Chopra is vastly fond of the word "quantum," and it gives a distinct coloration to his pitch.; In the context of his discourses, "quantum" is chiefly flaunted before audiences who would run in terror from any discussion of self-adjoint operators on a separable complex Hilbert space, though they might be lured back by the suggestion that Hilbert space is a domain of inexpressible spiritual bliss.

There has to be uncomfortable element in the discourse of anything to change.

When we allow emotions to trump the intellect, we swallow "facts" that are demonstrably untrue, letting them fly around unchallenged in a mockery of civic discourse, supporting public figures who promote fictions to further their own cause.

For this shall never be proved, that the things that are not are; and do thou restrain thy thought from this way of inquiry. Nor let habit force thee to cast a wandering eye upon this devious track, or to turn thither thy resounding ear or thy tongue; but do thou judge the subtle refutation of their discourse uttered by me.

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

If you meet a fencing-master on the road, you may give him your sword, If you meet a poet, you may offer him your poem. When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend. Never give the whole thing at once.

I do not accept history as determinism. I embrace history as possibility [where] we can demystify the evil in this perverse fatalism that characterizes the neoliberal discourse in the end of this century.

Nadie enseña lenguaje a otro. El lenguaje es una invención humana que se hacesocialmente y nadie enseña, todos adquieren el lenguaje, crean el lenguaje. Lo que uno enseña al otro es la gramática. Hasta la Sintaxis en ciertas dimensiones tampoco se enseña, porque la sintaxis de tu análisis es la forma como el pensar se estructura en el discurso.

To say one thing and do another - to take one's own word lightly - cannot inspire trust. To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and negate man [sic] is a lie.

Daí que, à linguagem da possibilidade, que comporta a utopia como sonho possível, prefiram o discurso neoliberal, pragmático

Mais do que ser educando por causa de uma razão qualquer, o educando precisa tornar-se educando assumindo-se como sujeito cognoscente e não como incidência do discurso do educador. Nisto é que reside, em última análise, a grande importância política do ato de ensinar.

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?

Job continued his discourse:

And Job continued his discourse:

Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.

When Jesus had concluded His discourse in the hearing of the people, He went to Capernaum.

But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,

They are of the world. That is why they speak from the worldís perspective, and the world listens to them.