What did Rebecca Goldstein mean by: In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. - Rebecca Goldstein Philosopher Copy
+ Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn’t be prepared to make for other people. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rebecca Goldstein, Excuses, 0 - Rebecca Goldstein Philosopher
+ What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rebecca Goldstein, Children, Force, Nature, 0 - Rebecca Goldstein Philosopher
+ Mother’ is not an identity one can just try on for size. Feraz Zeid, October 2, 2023December 26, 2023, Rebecca Goldstein, Identity, Mother, 0 - Rebecca Goldstein Philosopher
+ Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rebecca Goldstein, Connection, Heroes, Identity, 0 - Rebecca Goldstein Philosopher
+ Plato’s concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rebecca Goldstein, Emotional, Intellectual, Plato, 0 - Rebecca Goldstein Philosopher
+ The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rebecca Goldstein, Belief, Importance, 0 - Rebecca Goldstein Philosopher
+ Thinking is the soul speaking to itself. Feraz Zeid, October 11, 2023December 26, 2023, Rebecca Goldstein, Soul, 0 - Rebecca Goldstein Philosopher
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. - Jeremy Collier Clergyman · England
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. - William Matthews Poet · USA
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. - William Pfaff Journalist · USA
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
