Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law.… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its… — George Will Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Whenever you're going into oral argument, it's preferable to be able to weave the arguments together. That gets harder when you split… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
“Has anyone ever told you that you're unbearably rude?" she returned, facing him again. "Why, yes. You have on several occasions, as… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Hey, Alec," he said. The man was on his hands and knees, leaning his face into the middle of a bush; he… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become… — Lynette Fromme Copy Share Image
My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced?… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I understand fully that jobs are created by the private sector, having been all my life in the private sector, but I… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
“Given the state of disaster we humans have wrought upon the planet, it seems an argument can be made for the inferiority… — Hope Bohanec Copy Share Image
The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that the creativity would give out - I can't imagine what argument I would bring forward for… — Todd May Copy Share Image
I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When… — Cat Deeley Copy Share Image
This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées." ("It's… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
