#Argument

"They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience."

"Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument."

"You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into."

"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art."

"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."

"Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives."

"I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win."

"I want to be strapped to a table, while a family of chickens argues over who gets to eat my legs."

"Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word."

"We got into an argument over the color of love. I said it was pink, and he said it was red. So you see, I had no other choice but to stab him."

"I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet completely agreeing with me. That’s how I knew you loved me."

"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."

"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."

"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."

"In a battle of believability, the winner is the one with the best body language, not the clearest logic."

"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."

"...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet."

"There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies."

"It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly."

"Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon"