204 quotes found
“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil”
“I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.”
“The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.”
“Silence is the best defence for any argument.”
“Silence is an arguement hard to refute”
“You cant say Oh my stars. Oh my stars is not a thing, and it makes no sense. The whole point of that saying is that youre calling out to someone for help, and stars are not someone, and certainly n...”
“Before reacting to any conflicting situation in life. Ask yourself a simple question: "You want to be happy or you want to be right?”
“Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was he before the creation? If y...”
“The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes, accept this criticism. He can admit that no rational...”
“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as bleak. Namely, that it is a meaningless place devoid of deity.However I...”
“Nothing is wrong in taking medicine when youre sick, but something is wrong if It is been taking by you to cure the headache of another.”
“It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen.”
“I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.”
“All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the str...”
“It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.”
“The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.”
“Those two little words -- says you -- are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say somethi...”
“In comedy laughter settles all arguments.”
“You know, you can always do a three some.A three some? I frowned. No.He shrugged. Just a thought.Yeah, a dumb one, I spat.Hey! I didnt call your idea to re-wallpaper the kitchen a dumb idea!You hav...”
“Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love are few, and the ones you detest are many.”
