It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may… — John Milton Copy Share Image
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good… — Ricki-Lee Coulter Copy Share Image
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments,… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the C.D.A., interrupt that conversation. As… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
In my work, and in my psyche, there's some very sentimental, traditional, conventional side that's always in argument with a more radical,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines;… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants. — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
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