Quotes of: Discourse Keyword

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

Ayad Akhtar

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not i...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we comp...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned the Dhamma, they do not examine the meaning of those teachings...

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Los estadounidenses ya no hablan entre sí, sino que se entretienen recíprocamente. No intercambian ideas, sino imágenes.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

Journal of Discourses, Volume 9

Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson