Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The discovery of instances which confirm a theory means very little if we have not tried, and failed, to discover refutations. For… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention,… — William Johnson Cory Copy Share Image
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
