Quotes about Discourse

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as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reali — Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alo — Marcel Proust
A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster — Mohadesa Najumi
Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God be — Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in. — Carl R White
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “E — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
...civility doesn't require consensus or the suspension of criticism. It is simply the ability to disagree productively — Ravi Iyer and Jonathan Haidt
We tend to make up [stories] in the same circumstances in which people come up with conspiracy theories: ignorance and p — Tim Kreider
Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable t — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
The altitude of any relation is possible through discourse. — Unarine Ramaru
Read not to contradict and confute — nor to believe and take for granted
When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on — Criss Jami
Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporation — Philip K. Dick
[W]e would do better to treat terrorists as common criminals, people who have broken the laws recognized by all civil so — Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
It may well be that we talk about sex more than anything else; we set our minds to the task; we convince ourselves that — Michel Foucault
If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more de — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
Obviously, some part of us loves feeling 1) right and 2) wronged. But outrage is like a lot of other things that feel go — Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing