Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A real advantage to gettin' old is that the older ou get, the fewer people there are left alive who can refute… — Clark Crouch Copy Share Image
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Right and wrong suggests that there is only black and white. I refute that belief and instead replace it with my own.” — Emma Hamm Copy Share Image
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Conservative supporters might either have the courage of their convictions or, if truly ashamed, revise them, but they should at least refute… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“If you are a person of the same sort as myself, I should be glad to continue questioning you: If not, I… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
“To refute the solipsist or the metaphysical idealist all that you have to do is take him out and throw a rock… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the… — Madsen Pirie Copy Share Image
But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so… — Nicole Oresme Copy Share Image
“…such criticism and mockery are largely beside the point. All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“the feeble mind of man did not presume to resist the clear evidence of truth, but yielded its infirmity to wholesome doctrines,… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“When the Romans looked a little baffled, he said, "Let us suppose that certain crimes in the Constitution you are now planning… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“We must make the intellectual world safe for democracy. But in the conditions of modern mental anarchy, neither that nor any other… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There’s a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called “Is That Your True Rejection?”, and it works like this: Before… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it. — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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