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
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
“Whenever somebody challenges me with the notion that killing carrots is no different to killing cows, I make a point of pointing… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the… — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The argument from design stands or falls on whether it can be demonstrated that some aspect of the universe such as its… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are things I have to… — Dov Frohman Copy Share Image
There's a lot of disputes around the world, a lot of territorial conflicts around the world. But Israel is the only country… — Ron Dermer Copy Share Image
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If Clinton somehow pulls out a win in both states, then she has an excellent argument to make to the superdelegates: Voters… — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face?… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order.… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
