top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
Standard
Customized
More
"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
Authority
"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."
Knowledge
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
Philosophy
"And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."
Philosophy
"In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."
Behavior
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Philosophy
"This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night."
Society
"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
Man
"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
Forgiveness
"I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb."
Philosophy
bottom of page