Quotes About Dialogue

If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.

SOCRATES: I appreciate that, Agathon, and of course I have prepared well for our dialogue. These discussions are my main way of becoming the best Socrates I can be. But if I just wanted to speak my own thoughts out loud, I could talk to a mirror, without the bother of leaving my house. I've come here because I'll only be sure I've done my best thinking, when I hear others, and submit to the exhilarating discipline of the dialogue. All of us are smarter than any of us.

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such exchanges should be carried on with caution.

historians have largely ignored the opportunity for a new dialogue, and anthropologists have largely ceased to offer it.

Information game into the universe when the first hominids began to justify their actions to one another by making assertions and backing those assertions up with further assertions.

Information came into the universe when the first hominids began to justify their actions to one another by making assertions and backing those assertions up with further assertions.

He squeezed her hand. She squeezed his hand back. That's how they sometimes talked.

To quote Martin Buber, 'All real living is meeting.

We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

It was an awful thought to go and sit there among logical positivists ...

Sì." Abigail eyed him with exasperation. "Stop saying sì. Explain. Honestly, it's times like this your communication skills—" A kiss ended her irritated rant quite effectively.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.

He wanted to explain philosophy to me; I asked him not to.

O destino não é só dramaturgo, é também o seu próprio contra-regra, isto é, designa a entrada dos personagens em cena, dá-lhes as cartas e outros objetos, e executa dentro os sinais correspondentes ao diálogo, uma trovoada, um carro, um tiro.

The author & the reader know each other: they meet on the bridge of words

That's it, isn't it?" Mimi asked. "Someone to talk with. Someone who can talk about the things in our own concerns.

We envisage Slow Professors acting purposefully, cultivating emotional and intellectual resilience. By taking the time for reflection and dialogue, the Slow Professor takes back the intellectual life of the university.

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.

Two people may arrive at a conversation with very different conversational patterns. But almost instantly they reach a common ground.

We answered him when we could. And when we couldn't, we would just give him a book.

Communication succeeds when you make others understand you clearly, and they make you understand them clearly.