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Fallacy Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- [No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to…
- It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism…
- For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made…
- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of…
- ...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like…
More Fallacy Quotes
- If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan
- Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence… — Sir John Richard Hicks
- All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second… — Morris Raphael Cohen
- The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist… — Howard Lyman
- Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy... — Rasheed Ogunlaru
- The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and… — Thomas Merton
- The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will… — Milton Friedman