Quotes About Sophistry

In Sartre's style of argument, German metaphysics met French sophistry in a kind of European Coal and Steel Community producing nothing but rhetorical gas.

And now she spurned me, mocked me, accused me of sophistry. So

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi] Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

repeating the commonplaces about atheism and materialism and sophistry, which are the stock-accusations against all philosophers when there is nothing else to be said of them.

When ideas are manipulated for personal ends, for class or group interests, the name for this is sophistry.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.