“It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.” NeedsSpiritNamesConditionsConversationEgoPsychologicalSeventiesCatalogues Author:Richard Rosen
“If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.” IfsConditionsThousandConversationMurderTricksContradictionInterruptionsStipulations Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections
“There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.” WellsLastsHouseSpeakSoundLandConditionsConversationProsperityEntertainmentAriseMiserableComparisonLimbsDwellingOffendingSpeaking Well Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.” PeopleWantSaidIdeasPhilosophyCoursesTermGenerationsConditionsEffectsConversationSpeechEarsSurrenderDestroyingConquestUnconditionalChristmas Eve Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.” MenEndsWholeGovernmentHumanityUniverseHoursWhiteCitiesConditionsConversationArmyDesertSandOrganizeMossFeasting Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.” PeopleRealSelfConditionsConversationDiscoveryCommitmentOneselfDialogueContact Book:The Meaning of Persons Source: The Meaning of Persons