Fallacy Quotes

142 quotes by 121 authors

In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but… — Rajneesh
Social Science â€¦ led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe… — David Riesman
The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however,… — Eric Voegelin
To show mercy is not naÃ¯ve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...… — Rick Yancey
Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy... — Rasheed Ogunlaru
Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight. — Robert Bazell
Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to… — Ron Paul
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. — Steven Pinker
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time. — John Dewey
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology… — Christopher Hitchens
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be… — Aldo Leopold
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of… — Cynthia Ozick
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens,… — Thomas Sowell
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the… — Bernard Baruch
When you find the right components inÂ your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be… — Sylvester Stallone
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy. — Peter Mullan
Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and… — Darrel Ray
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are… — Ernst T. Krebs
Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There… — Benito Mussolini
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries. — Leo Tolstoy

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