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- Wilkie Collins99◆ Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.
- Neal Stephenson99◆ Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
- William Blake99◆ No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
- Wilkie Collins99◆ I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
- Dave Barry99◆ I want to be strapped to a table, while a family of chickens argues over who gets to eat my legs.
- Jarod Kintz99◆ It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
- Voltaire99◆ You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
- Ben Goldacre99◆ Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.
- Christine de Pizan99◆ I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.
- Michel de Montaigne99◆ Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- John Milton99◆ It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. The theologians, taking one with another, are adept logicians, but every now and then they have to resort to sophistries so obvious that their whole case takes on an air of the ridiculous. Even the most logical religion starts out with patently false assumptions. It is often argued in support of this or that one that men are so devoted to it that they are willing to die for it. That, of course, is as silly as the Santa Claus proof. Other men are just as devoted to manifestly false religions, and just as willing to die for them. Every theologian spends a large part of his time and energy trying to prove that religions for which multitudes of honest men have fought and died are false, wicked, and against God.
- H.L. Mencken99◆ You can't win an argument with an argument.
- Sukant Ratnakar98◆ There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
- Hannah Arendt98◆ The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification—judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind—essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.
- Karl Pearson98
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