Discourses may also refer to:
- Domain of discourse, a logical/mathematical term
- Conversation, synonym for one meaning of discourse
- Four discourses, a theory by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan
- Discourses (Meher Baba), a book by Indian religious teacher Meher Baba
- Discourses on Livy, a book by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Discourses of Epictetus, a series of books by the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c.55 - c.135)
- Discourses, a series of books by Greek historian of the Roman Empire Dio Chrysostom (c.40 – c.120)
- Discourses, a 1701 book by Benjamin Whichcote, leader of the Cambridge Platonists
- Discourses, a book by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Famous quotes containing the word discourses:
“I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love’s world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.”
—Joyce Appleby (b. 1929)
“Hath homely age th’ alluring beauty took
From my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it.
Are my discourses dull? Barren my wit?
If voluble and sharp discourse be marred,
Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)