Quotes About Argument

it is not by winning an argument but by keeping yourself grounded in reality that you carry on the human heritage.

Legend has it that in an argument with a cardinal, Napoleon pointed out that he had the power to destroy the church. "Your majesty," the cardinal replied, "we, the clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last eighteen hundred years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.

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

Wrong or right, he would never again for anything in the world have recourse to a priest. He admitted that these men were his superiors in intelligence or by reason of their sacred calling; but in argument there is neither superiority, nor inferiority, nor title, nor age, nor name; nothing is of worth but truth, before which all men are equal.

The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained

I disagree with you, but I recognize the integrity of your argument. I recognize your moral responsibility.

My dentist was married to a manicurist. But it did not work out. They fought tooth and nail !

To reach truth that one cannot be argued out of is to escape from the linguistically expressible to the ineffable. Only the ineffable—what is not describable at all—cannot be described differently.

Thomas remembered something from his boarding-school days. There, he'd strategized. The only way to fight the righteous was to present an argument that would make giving him what he wanted seem the only righteous thing to do.

The only way to fight the righteous was to present an argument that would make giving him what he wanted seem the only righteous thing to do.

ils fracassaient autour d'eux un idiome de castagnettes en brandissant au-dessus de leurs têtes des mains crispées dans un vent d'arguments.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

All numbers in logic must be capable of justification.   Or rather it must become plain that there are no numbers in logic.   There are no pre-eminent numbers.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments: no, it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much as the point of departure, as the element in which arguments have their life.

Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.

The language of logical argument, of proofs,is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling,moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the free language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith.

The Power of Context is an environmental argument. It says that behavior is a function of social context.

the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.

Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener's eye that tells you you're on to something.

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.