Books Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“It is said that an eighteenth-century bishop who read Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels threw the book into the fire, indignantly declaring that he…

— Terry Eagleton

“You do not reason a man out of something he was not reasoned into.”

— Peter Boghossian

“If an author does not give reasons for his propositions, they can only be treated as expressions of personal opinion on his part.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“When he changed his mind, very suddenly, expressing increasingly grave reservations into a series of hotel phones, I found myself adrift, stunned by the…

— Olivia Laing

“You can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into.”

— Timothy Ferriss

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

— Jonathan Swift

“In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, print put forward a definition of intelligence that gave priority to the objective, rational use of the mind…

— Neil Postman

“The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Scottish philosopher William Drummond, read: “He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot reason is a fool; he who dares not…

— Jonathan Eig

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky