Discourse Quotes - Page 15

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

  Samuel R. Delany

  Rhetoric, 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

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• The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every Number as it comes forth from the press as an additional reflector of 'the light that shines from Zion's hill.

  George Q. Cannon

  Numbers, Light, Zion

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• I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

  Saint Basil

  Teacher, Soul, Cases

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• For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.

  David Abram

  Expression, Australia, Vitality

  David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.179, Vintage

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• In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.

  David Abram

  Writing, Land, Two

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Dull

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.392, Princeton University Press

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• All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

  Ben Jonson

  Speech, Harsh, My Own

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.363

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• Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

  Beatrice Warde

  People, Design, Personality

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• Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Past, Architecture, Moments

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• It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Detectives, Dangerous

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• It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

  David Whyte

  Average, Narrative, Truthful

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

  Richard Whately

  Book, Passion, Imagination

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• Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it.

  Leslie Scalapino

  Girly, Men, Opposites

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• But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them out ourselves, and give them to specific people we felt comfortable giving them to–like gifts? Isn’t publishing sort of a social contract?

  Jonathan Evison

  Book, Writing, People

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• Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred - other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?

  Glenn Greenwald

  Views, Law, Political

  "France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration". theintercept.com. January 14, 2015.

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• A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Memories, Intellectual

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• The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Bible, Simple, Years

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• We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots movement where people will become attuned to uncompassionate discourse in the same way as we are now attuned to sort of gender imbalance in our speech.

  Karen Armstrong

  People, Leader, Mind

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Our World, Goal, Atheism

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• Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

  Thom Mayne

  Art, Unique, Space

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• The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

  John Paul Stevens

  Would Be, Levels, Mailboxes

  "Obama on Mass Shootings; Paul Campaign's Struggles; What House Members Want; Thurgood Marshall's Fight" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 2, 2015.

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• No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must be strictly monitored by its owner to prevent lapses into health-threatening behaviors as identified by risk discourse. For those with the socioeconomic resources to indulge in risk modification, this discourse may supply the advantages of a new religion; for others, this discourse has the potential to create anxiety and guilt, to promote hopelessness and fear of the future.

  Deborah Lupton

  Indulge In, House, Anxiety

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• In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.

  Etgar Keret

  Dog, Israel, People

  "My country right and wrong". Interview With Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning. It is therefore also devoted to the knowledge, discourses, and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it.

  Richard Shusterman

  Appreciation, Philosophy, Self

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• Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

  Michel Foucault

  Knowledge And Power, Thanks, Economy

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