quotes about Sophistry
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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
-- AeschinesSource : "Against Timarchus". Speech by Aeschines, 84 (107), c. 346 BC.
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Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Jacques Barzun -
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.
-- Ted Hughes -
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay.
-- Ambrose Evans-PritchardSource : Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (1997). “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories”, Regnery Pub
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This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of marriage may be the ultimate sophistry of those advocating same-gender marriage.
-- Lance B. Wickman -
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Source : "Star of Parenthood and Kingdom Jonathan Tucker: Giving Back". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.”
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“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”