Stanley Fish Quotes

• This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

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  Doe, World, Language

  Stanley Fish (2011). “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

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  Giving, Perception, Shapes

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

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  Education, Two Sides, Three

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• Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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  Two, Different, Belief

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• The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

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  Reading, Ideas, Deeds

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

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  Writing, Trying, Firsts

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• It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

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  Thinking, Matter, Helping

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• Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

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  Sentences, Asks

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.

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  Writing, Assessment, Looks

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

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  Writing, Musical, Sound

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

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  Goal, Freedom Of Speech, Academic

  Fuente: www.salon.com

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• Cualquier idea puede introducirse en el aula si lo que se pretende es indagar en su estructura, historia, influencia, etc. Pero ninguna idea pertenece al aula si lo que se pretende al introducirla es reclutar a los alumnos para la agenda política que pueda implicar. Pero ninguna idea tiene cabida en el aula si el objetivo de introducirla es reclutar a sus alumnos para la agenda política que se pueda pensar que implica.

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  Ideas, Political, Agendas

  Stanley Fish (2015). “Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education”, p.360, Princeton University Press

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• It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

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  Philosophical, Moral, Assuming

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• People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

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  Escritura, Orden, Gente

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

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  Frases

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 38. Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• Debería haberlo sabido. Los argumentos a favor de la vida se basan ahora en pruebas científicas y los argumentos a favor del aborto no. Eso es un hecho cultural e histórico.

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  Should Have, Choices, Pro Life

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• Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

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  Law, Numbers, Speech

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• The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.

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  Development, Firsts, Looking Forward

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

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  Connections, Structure, Floats

  Stanley Fish (2011). “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.

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  Writing, Practice, Forever

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• Las sesiones de intercambio de opiniones son como la comida basura: te llenan de almidón y te dejan saciado y hambriento a la vez. Una indagación sostenida sobre la verdad de un asunto es una experiencia casi atlética; puede agotarte, pero también te mejora.

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  Athletic, Feelings, Junk

  Stanley Fish (2012). “Save the World on Your Own Time”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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• I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

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  Rights, Support, Abortion

  Stanley Eugene Fish (1999). “The Trouble with Principle”, p.285, Harvard University Press

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• Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

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  Writing, Practice, Time Zones

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

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  Doe, Speak, Higher Education

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• We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

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  Democracy, Teach, University

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