quotes about Argumentation

last updated: November 28, 2023

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
-- Richard Rorty

Source : "Richard Rorty. What made him a crucial American philosopher?" by Stephen Metcalf, www.slate.com. June 18, 2007.

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“I'm pretty sure my audience could be bigger, if I could get it out a lot more different places, but that's what we're working towards right now today. It ain't like I'm at the end of our career or nothing like that, I just now getting started. I been in the game for a long time but I'm just now getting heard by people everywhere else. And they still seem to like it, so it didn't give me nothing but fuel, and motivation to keep it pushing.”
“Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces.”
“I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.”
“It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.”
“If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.”
“By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.”
“I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazareneâ€¦.No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.”
“Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states—negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps these interactional loops and provides Ericksonian strategies to help couples make their marriage entrancing. Therapists of all persuasions are sure to benefit from this important book.”
“We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.”
“One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what youâ€™ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case”