Quotes About Argument

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural.

How does modern science relate to religion? It seems that people have already said a million times everything there is to say about this question. Yet in practice, science and religion are like a husband and wife who after 500 years of marriage counselling still don't know each other. He still dreams about Cinderella and she keeps pining for Prince Charming, while they argue about whose turn it is to take out the rubbish.

There's insanity on both sides of the debate when you argue with an idiot.

If right were ultimately right, its differentiation from not-right would require no debate.

Shakra scowled. "You're a moron." "Being rude does not make you more intelligent that I." "No, being more intelligent than you makes me more intelligent than you, you goat-brained simpleton." "I did not come here to be insulted." "What, do you have somewhere special to go for that kind of thing?

Glen jogged back. "What? What are you laughing about?" "Nothing," said Amber, trying to contain herself. "Did you learn anything?" "No," said Glen. "Turns out that old guy is German and doesn't speak a word of English." "Then what were you arguing about?" Glen looked puzzled. "How should I know?

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

This last argument overcame my remorse. It was all I needed, for man is a coward intent on finding an excuse for his cowardice