The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point.
George OrwellHe who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: disagreement heat thoughts debate ice dispute arguement
A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas CarlyleWhenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
Criss JamiTags: reason purpose war enemies strategy understanding argument fallacy battle debate exaggeration motives unbiased fallacies biased straw-man straw-man-fallacy strawman strawman-fallacy tactic
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.
Sergio de la PavaTags: service doing academia debate intellectualism production arguing
I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.
Criss JamiTags: knowledge speech winning right argument pretend debate correct
The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.
Richard Henry PrattI am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.
Criss JamiTags: philosophy light argument clarity confusion apologetics debate theism perplexities
Too many people get away with truly awful ‘reasoning’, not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in the majority.
Ellie Rose McKeeTags: debate
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
Peter HitchensTags: manipulation indoctrination debate rhetoric brainwashing
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