Quotes About Debate

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Sola scriptura both set and limited the terms for discussing slavery and gave apologists for the institution great advantages.

What year did Jesus think it was?

Locked in a debate over Israel's alleged vices, they miss the salient truth running through the long history of anti-Semitism: Israel is hated above all for its virtues.

It's funny how you use logic in an argument and think it will persuade me.

But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.

Non ho il genio della lite diceva. Indro Montanelli racconta Carlo Cattaneo

rabbit hole of relativism.

He's going on and on, and I can't be bothered. I just can't be fuckin well arsed saying something like: Solaris shites all over 2001, and then listening to him arguing vehemently against it. Or, alternatively, waiting for him to say it, and then being expected to argue engingly, as if to agree, even if we do, is a sign that we're effete proofs. I can't be bothered with it and I can't even be bothered to tell him that I can'be be bothered.

E por aí vão, metidos nessa batalha, testando forças e afirmando um ao outro que não discordam fundamentalmente mesmo quando há um abismo entre seus posicionamentos, ou ainda discutindo violentamente em cima de diferenças de ênfase mínimas e pedantes. Em outras palavras, estão agindo com o perfeitos estudantes de merda.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

Let us assume you've made your point.

And finally, people are against it." "But why?" "Because they're against science in general. You should know this as well as anyone, Professor.

I think its disgraceful to align that first Led Zeppelin record with heavy metal because its far, far better, but you know what Im saying: It started that genre.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

I can debate for weeks whether a trouser should sit on the waist, or a centimetre below, or on the hip, whether it should have a zip or a button, because I find personally that a detail like that can have a massive impact on how I carry myself that day. If I wear a slouchy jean, that will affect my posture and my whole manner.

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

Zombie purists don't even call our zombies zombies, because to be a zombie you have to be undead. That's something zombie purists can fight about for years and years to come.