That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It w...
At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why should not I believe in them, since they have so much on their side: tradition, the concurrence of ma...
I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea of a loving and merciful deity is inconsistent with the fact of natural evil, said this meant his god was not all-powerful, and t...
If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Lectures on Physics. There's a quote there about how philosophers say a great deal about what science absolutely requires, and it is all wrong, because the only r...
As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I've never questioned the justification for resorting to force. That's why I supported Vietnam's...
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-th...
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
It has been said that a man with an argument is no match for a man with an experience.
The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputatio...
Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
