Quotes About Argument

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

God's Word is its own best argument.

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.