Quotes About Debate

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

Further, the orator should be able to prove opposites, as in logical arguments;

rhetoric was to be surveyed from the standpoint of philosophy.

not that we should do both (for one ought not to persuade people to do what is wrong), but that the real state of the case may not escape us, and that we ourselves may be able to counteract false arguments, if another makes an unfair use of them.

a man investigating principles cannot argue with one who denies their existence.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.

It's odd. Sol Invictus—he's such a contrast to the cool thinking of the theists.

but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as

no era aquel un momento para dimes y diretes.

Lawyers and doctors were created for the specific purpose of contradicting each other. Whatever one says, the other must say just the opposite. They're just like the Aramaic translation of the Bible.

The weakness of my position does not imply a strengthening of yours.

Leibniz thought that if we had a sufficiently logical notation, dispute and confusion would cease, and men would sit together and resolve their disputes by calculation.

Lidé zapojení do debaty o Å¡ifrování jsou vesmÄ›s inteligentní, ?estní a jsou pro depozici klí??, ale nikdy nemají více než dvÄ› tyto vlastnosti najednou.

Siempre habrá personas con un punto de vista distinto. En mi país tenemos demócratas y republicanos. Aquí vosotros tenéis nazis y antinazis. Eso es lo que hace que el mundo no se pare.

One afternoon Clairaut came over to me with a book in his hand: "Mademoiselle de Beauvoir," he began, in an inquisitorial tone, "what do you make of Brochard who is of the opinion that Aristotle's God would be able to experience sexual pleasure?" Herbaud cast him a disdainful look: "I should hope so, for his sake," he haughtily replied.

Imagine that the devil is in the process of buying the soul of some poor afflicted being, and that someone, taking pity on the one afflicted, were to intervene in the debate and say to the devil: it is really shameful for you to offer only this price; the thing is worth at least twice that. This sinister farce is what is being played out in the workers' movement by the syndicates, parties, and intellectuals of the left.

You see, we don't like murder as a way of argument—that's what really marks the Liberal!

The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow.

King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.

Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

For every quote, there is one that challenges it.

Questions about what counts as knowledge are at the heart of most dissensions about religion.