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Source: Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor

“In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that the bombing campaign united the German nation behind Hitler, and actually contributed to the sustaining of his power.”

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Author:Nicholson Baker

“God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and whatever moral progress we make in our knowledge or whatever progress we make in our moral knowledge is not coming really from religion. It's coming from the very hard work really of moral philosophy, of trying to ground our moral reasonings.”

Thinking Trying Hard Philosophy Helping Shows Moral Progress Hard Work Argument Reasoning Moral Philosophy Moral Reasoning

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

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Author:William Henry Drummond

“Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.”

War Bigs Forget Rights Dog Military Kings Gun Argument Forget You Total War Artillery Dogs Of War

Author:Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

“Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.”

Mind May Sometimes Force Liberty Enemy Clear Wall Argument Impression Firm Strongest Nevertheless Mud Batteries Stand Firm

Book:An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

“The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.”

Knows Way Winning Argument Educational Best Way

Author:Lord Hailsham

“A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.”

Matter Reading Novel Argument Impression

Book:Tess of the D'urbervilles

Source: Tess of the D'urbervilles

“A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.”

Men Values Opinion Argument

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”

Way Firsts Science Goal Existence Half Stage Argument Notion Half Way Non Existence

Author:Zeno of Elea

“The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.”

Ifs Firsts Funny Next Views Position Argument Stress Witty Point Of View Finding Yourself Next Time

Book:The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life

Source: The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life

“Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.”

Thinking Men Way May Has Beens Running Imagination Known Opinion Impossible Example Divine Argument Invention Streams Be A Man Forming Opinions

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.”

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Author:Zeno of Elea

“Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.”

Men Should May Home Fire Arms Argument

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.”

People Mind Real Pleasure Seeing Argument Favourite

Author:Sam Harris

“Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”

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Author:Sam Harris

“The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.”

Force Economic Taxes Intellectual Argument Seeking

Author:Mervyn King

“Keep cool; anger is not an argument.”

Inspirational Argument Anger Management Tranquility Peace And Tranquility

Author:Daniel Webster

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.”

“I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.”

Heart Sometimes Reason Reality Jesus Christ My Heart Jesus Christ Argument Philosophical Assured

Author:Daniel Webster

“A good action is preferable to an argument.”

Action Argument Good Actions

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.”

People Men Order Practice Wise Masters Fool Argument Statistics Superstitions

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon

“Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.”

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Author:Thomas Campbell

“Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.”

Men Action Virtue Example Argument

Author:John Webster

“Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.”

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Author:Kevin Kelly

“Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.”

Mind Argument Lazy

Author:Peter Atkins

“Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?”

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Author:Mike Carey

“If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?”

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Author:Sam Harris

“You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.”

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Author:Carl Hiaasen

“It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.”

One Thing Argument Presses Command Penalties

Book:Letters on Toleration

Source: Letters on Toleration

“Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.”

People Mind Important Facts Social Behavior Argument Tools Stupidity Superiors Plenty Acquisition Mockery

Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.”