Quotes About Debate

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

Peace adores above everything free discussion and expression without intimidation.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

But who is ever fair in an argument?