204 quotes found
“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.”
“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon”
“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.”
“You don’t 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 a...”
“Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.”
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”
“When there is no argument [dispute] over a talk, it is called ‘Principle’.”
“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like someth...”
“You can never win resentment with an argument—only love can do that.”
“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...”
“I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)”
“Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.”
“Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.”
“Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.”
“Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she's fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a ...”
“They weren't making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses, but which can go on for e...”
“Don’t fight with narrow minded people; be determined to compel them to change their mindsets about who you stand to be, not by arguments, but by focusing on what you do every day. If they change it...”
“I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father’s hand. "What’s this?" he asked, raising a brow. "You’ll need it t...”
