"Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself."

Logic, Argument, Truth, Debate

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"Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself."

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"The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition."

Eva Figes, British Writer

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"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."

Umberto Eco, Italian Novelist

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"But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."

Derek Landy, Irish Writer

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"Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne."

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"Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man."

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"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

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"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."

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"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

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"Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others."

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"With soap baptism is a good thing."

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"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."

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"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."

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