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Argument Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!
- There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may…
- When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by…
- If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well…
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because…
- Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though…
- When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all…
- If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the…
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- If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's… — Margaret Atwood
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences… — Roger Bacon
- The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. — Lord Acton
- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou
- I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. — Douglas Adams
- My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. — John Barrymore
- I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments… — Mario Batali
- It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
- Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems.… — Bob Beauprez
- A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. — Joseph Addison