Jargon Quotes
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Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.
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Now, as discord is allowable, and even necessarily opposed to concord, why may not noise, or a seeming jargon, be opposed to fixed sounds and harmonical proportion? Some of the discords in modern music, unknown till this century, are what the ear can but just bear, but have a very good effect as to contrast. The severe laws of preparing and resolving discord, may be too much adhered to for great effect; I am convinced that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it.
charles burney— The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) pp. 152-3
The sounding jargon of the schools.
william cowper— Truth, line 367.
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.
doris lessing— New York Times Book Review (30 March 1980), p. 24
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
theodor adorno— pp. 5-6 (Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964))
What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content. In that sense the character of the jargon would be quite formal: it sees to it that what it wants is on the whole felt and accepted through its mere delivery, without regard to the content of the words used.
theodor adorno— Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Translation: Jargon of Authenticity] (1964)
The jargon makes it seem that ... the pure attention of the expression to the subject matter would be a fall into sin.
theodor adorno— p. 9 (Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964))
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
theodor adorno— p. 9 (Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964))
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.
theodor adorno— p. 9 (Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964))
To reach someone's soul, you have to have a social relationship. … You can't just sit down in the cold world of legal jargon and settle the nuances of racism and what it does to the social and cultural fabric. … The rich in America are so isolated that for Bobby to come into this intimate experience with its victims was a revelation. You could see in his face the anguish and consternation. It played away at his conscience and soul.
harry belafonte— On inspiring Robert F. Kennedy to greater concern for civil rights.
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
brewster, kingman, jr.— Address to the British Institute of Management (13 December 1977)
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.
anthony daniels— Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neoliberalism: The British Journal of Psychiatry is wrong to blame neoliberalism for the over-prescription of antidepressants (May 24, 2006)
The idea of politics as a conservation in which the collision of opinions is moderated and accommodated, in which what is sought is not truth but peace, has been almost entirely lost, and supplanted by a legalist paradigm in which all political claims and conflicts are modelled in the jargon of rights.
john n. gray— 'Oakeshott as a Liberal' (p.80)
Men have been released from [concentration] camps who have taken over the jargon of their jailers and with cold reason and mad consent (the price, as it were, of their survival) tell their story as if it could not have been otherwise than it was, contending that they have not been treated so badly after all.
max horkheimer— p. 45 ("The End of Reason" (1941))
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.
camille paglia— p. ix (Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992))
I never got used to the way the house Trots fell into the jargon back in Grimsby I mean, on any other subject, like the death of the novel, or the sex life of the editor's secretary, they spoke ordinary English, but as soon as they started trying to get me to join the strike it was as if their brains had been taken out and replaced by one of those little golf-ball things you get in electric typewriters... "Betrayal"... "Confrontation"... "Management"... My God, you'd need a more supple language than that to describe an argument between two amoebas.
tom stoppard— Milne, Act I
We must distinguish between a man of polite learning and a meer schollar: the first is a gentleman and what a gentleman should be; the last is a meer bookcase, a bundle of letters, a head stufft with the jargon of languages, a man that understands every body but is understood by no body.
— Daniel Defoe The Compleat English Gentleman, ch. 5; James T. Boulton (ed.) Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe (London: Cambridge University Press, 1975) p. 255.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, Epistle to J. L.——k.
We have found that television is such a huge part of baby boomers' DNA that it makes sense that so much of America's pop culture jargon comes from TV.
— Larry W. Jones, TV Land president
— "You can say that again...and again...and again..". Reuters. December 7, 2006. p. p. 1. Retrieved on 2006-12-07.
It was disturbing for me to see recognizable body parts in the removed tissue, usually an arm or a leg. My intent is not to be gruesome, but there is a reality behind all the political jargon that I believe I allowed myself to ignore until this experience. I have images now that accompany phrases such as, “Potential for life” and I understand the emotions that drive pro-life forces…
— Anonymous medical student working at Planned Parenthood, Abortion Action Guide Medical Students for Choice, National Abortion Federation, Sept. 1993.
Sphere Music — Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music — pure, unmixed music — in which no wail mingles.
Henry David Thoreau— August 5, 1838
All jargon of the schools.
Matthew Prior— I am that I am, An Ode; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
