Abstract Quote by Aristotle

As soon as one point is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion may not simply result in a new and better…

— Adolf Hitler

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading…

— Charles Darwin

As soon as one point alone is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion will not simply result in a new and…

— Adolf Hitler

“Once a structurally complete and closed system of opinions consisting of many details and relations has been formed, it offers enduring resistance to anything…

— Ludwik Fleck

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

“No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity”

— David Hume

Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion…

— Dana Spiotta

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Their goal is to deepen our comprehension of the discussions themselves instead of justifying particular views involved in current debates.”

— Gary B. Ferngren

“Discussions, debates and even arguments will be fruitful if done with an open mind.”

— Haresh Sippy

“It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions…

— N.T. Wright

Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have,…

— Walter Lippmann