Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced… — Genrich Altshuller Copy Share Image
“Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society… — Jon Wynne-Tyson Copy Share Image
“The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me crazier than the "you gave us Trump" argument based on Hillary Clinton's emails. I didn't set up the private… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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