#dial

In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf. ↗

— Alistair McHarg

#dark-comedy #great-dialogue #humor #quirky-characters #social-satire

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#night

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#discussion #prejudice #truth #prejudice

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#culture #dialogue #psychology #relationships #sociology

- "They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them. ↗

— Iain Banks

#cynical #dialogue #paranoid #cynicism

The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious tradition. They should also contemplate what place their own religious tradition assigns to people of other faith traditions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 52) ↗

— David R. Smock

#religion #religious-differences #spirituality #faith

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. ↗

— Barton Booth

#needle #pole #sun #true

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#also #ask #attempting #cosmopolitan #dialogue

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year. ↗

— Marek Belka

#countries #dialogues #i #last #last year

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#answers #being #condition #dialogue #fighting