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Discourse Quotes

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Jacques Lacan
Discourse, Unconscious

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Jean-Francois Lyotard
Kind, Discourse, Scientific Knowledge

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Mason Cooley
Loyalty, Likes, Discourse

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.

Jacques Derrida
Poetic, Methodology, Discourse
Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

Neil Armstrong
Levels, Discourse, Public Discourse
"Armstrong's Code" by Kathy Sawyer in Washington Post Magazine (p. 10), www.washingtonpost.com. July 11, 1999.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

Michel Foucault
Silence, Strategy, Discourse
Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.27, Vintage

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

Winston Smith
Discourse, Attribution, Bane

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

Saint Francis de Sales
Cutting, Discourse
Letter upon Eloquence,

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

Charles Spurgeon
Grace, Doctrine, Discourse
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.73, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

Rowan Williams
Numbers, Forums, Discourse
"This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

Stephen Batchelor
Self, Risk, Discourse

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Plato
Language, Discourse, Subjects
Plato, R. Hackforth (1952). “Plato: Phaedrus”, p.161, Cambridge University Press

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

Jimmy Wales
Discourse, Charlatans, Lunatic
"Jimmy Wales tells 'energy workers' that Wikipedia won't publish woo". boingboing.net. March 26, 2014.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Homer
Mind, Banquets, Discourse
Homer, John Selby WATSON (1858). “The Odyssey of Homer; Translated by Alexander Pope. To which are Added the Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Parnell; and the Hymns by Chapman and Others. With Observations and Brief Notes by the Rev. J. S. Watson ... Illustrated with the Entire Series of Flaxman's Designs”, p.251

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.

Edgar Allan Poe
Progressive, States, Discourse
Edgar Allan Poe (1856). “The Select Works: With a Memoir of the Author. ¬The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”, p.269

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

Ani DiFranco
Media, Term, Discourse
Source: www.elle.com

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unsaid, Discourse
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.51, Harvard University Press

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

Samuel R. Delany
Rhetoric, Discourse, Preserves
Samuel R. Delany (2014). “The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—“Angouleme””, p.150, Wesleyan University Press

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

Amy Koppelman
Made, Mets, Discourse

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

William Shakespeare
Ears, Discourse
'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 145

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.

Susan Fiske
Goal, Respectful, Discourse
"We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

Neuter discourse is a false idol.

Richard M. Weaver
Idols, Discourse
Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.24, Psychology Press

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence, Shame, Discourse
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1387, Delphi Classics

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theology, Discourse, Subjects
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.305, Harvard University Press

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

Rae Armantrout
Mean, Half, Discourse

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