Quotes About Argument

Some of you are most likely thinking that white is not really a colour and all of that tired sort of nonsense. Well, I'm here to tell you that it is. White is without question a colour, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me.

White is without question a color, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me.

P]ersonally, I don't think you want to argue with me. A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please be calm, despite that previous threat, I am all bluster- I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.

There was the smell of pea soup, something burning and confrontation.

One seat, two men, a short argument and me. It kills me sometimes, how people die.

Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight at you; you have no conversation with a popular novel. Whereas you do have a conversation (you have an intense argument) with [literary fiction].

One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.

Certainly, dialectic is a magnificent thing. But one never finds the dialectic, as if it were a mill which exists somewhere and into which one empties whatever one chooses, or whose mechanism one could modify according to taste and need.

a man may be very dogmatic in his opposition to dogma. Such

You, Comrade Rubashov, have just used the same arguments as this women's delegation from Manchester. You, of course, know better than these women. So one may wonder at your using the same arguments. But then, you have something in common with them: you were given a watch as a child….

Those who are so zealous and eager to settle debated questions by citing authorities, are really glad when they are able to put the understanding and the insight of others into the field in place of their own, which are wanting.

Quando percebemos que o adversário é superior e que acabará por não nos dar razão, então nos tornamos pessoalmente ofensivos, insultuosos, grosseiros. O uso das ofensas pessoais consiste em sair do objeto da discussão e passar ao contendor, atacando, de uma maneira ou de outra, a sua pessoa.

Dowodz?c komukolwiek zupe?nie spokojnie, ?e nie ma racji, a wi?c b??dnie my?li i s?dzi — a bywa to przy ka?dym dialektycznym zwyci?stwie — z?o?cisz go wi?cej ni? gburowato?ci? i obelgami

je?eli dysputujÄ… dwie pospolite gÅ'owy, okazuje siÄ™, ?e or??em wybranym przez nie sÄ… autorytety; bijÄ… siÄ™ wspólnie autorytetami

Do?? cz?sto po o?ywionym sporze ka?dy z dysputuj?cych powraca do siebie ze zdaniem przeciwnika. Wprost pozamieniali si? ze sob? w?asnymi pogl?dami. Nie sztuka wi?c dowodzi?, ?e w sporach winno si? mie? na wzgl?dzie tylko wyja?nienie prawdy; ale w?a?nie chodzi o to, ?e jeszcze nie wiadomo, gdzie jest ta prawda, gdy? argumenty przeciwnika i nasze w?asne wprowadzaj? nas w b??d

ProwadzÄ…cy dysputÄ™ walczy zwykle nie za prawdÄ™, lecz za swojÄ… tezÄ™ (...) Ka?dy wiÄ™c pragnie zwyci??y? zawsze, nawet wówczas, kiedy wÅ'asne twierdzenie uzna w danej chwili za bÅ'Ä™dne lub wÄ…tpliwe.

ten, kto wychodzi ze sporu zwyci?zc?, do?? cz?sto zawdzi?cza to nie tyle prawid?owo?ci s?du przy obronie swej tezy, ile sztuce i zr?czno?ci, z jak? to wykonywa?

C? îns? un patron absolut tic?los precum Hegel, a c?rui întreag? pseudofilozofare a fost de fapt o amplificare monstruoas? a argumentului ontologic, a c?utat s?-I apere pe acesta împotriva criticii lui Kant constituie o alian?? de care însuÅŸi argumentului ontologic i s-ar face ruÅŸine, oricât de puÅ£in are el de-a face cu ruÅŸinea.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?

The fights are always the same

However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

His argument for the thesis was that if the universe did not have a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before any event, which he considered absurd. The argument for the antithesis was that if the universe had a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before it, so why should the universe begin at any one particular time? In fact, his cases for both the thesis and the antithesis are really the same argument.