204 quotes found
“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”
“Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.”
“You dont know anything about me.No, I know not everything about you. But I sense enough to know you have mistaken obsession with drive, guilt with injustice. I know you want to escape what you are,...”
“You can never win resentment with an argumentonly love can do that.”
“Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.”
“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic wont? - Damon”
“There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exa...”
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond end...”
“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all ...”
“Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can kno...”
“There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.”
“Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.”
“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who hav...”
“It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convi...”
“The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.”
“The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - t...”
“When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is ...”
“The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.”
“Just consider how terrible the day of your death will beOthers will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back”
