"The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verstandlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another."

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Source : "Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy". Book by Werner Ulrich, 1983.

Jurgen Habermas

#Expression Quotes #Speakers Quotes

“The beer sold here in the United States is sweet and watery and lacking in taste and overcarbonated and just generally the lamest, wimpiest beer in the entire known world. All the other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer, and we are drinking Barry Manilow.”
“When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.”
“Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?”
“Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.”
“Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.”
“I love to draw. I spend hours every day drawing.”
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”

Source : "Strange Innocence". Interview with J. T. LeRoy, July 2001.
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”

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