I don't appreciate the usage of 'argumentum ad hominem' (i.e. personal attacks), 'argumentum ad ignorantiam', 'argumentum ad populum', straw man, or other fallacies which attempt to displace my vain definition of truth. Limiting non-PC stuff, which is pretty much everything.
"A God who rewards and punishes is inconceivable to him for the simple reason that a man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal, so that in God's eyes he cannot be responsible, any more than an inanimate object is responsible for the motions it undergoes." - Albert Einstein
"If the truth shall kill them, let them die." - Immanuel Kant
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." - Leonardo DaVinci
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." - Carl Jung
"All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing." - Carlton Smith
"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others." - Douglas Adams
"Life without truth is not possible. Truth is perhaps Life itself." - Franz Kafka
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." - Moses Maimonides
"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born." - Nikola Tesla
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself." - Samuel Johnson
"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true." - Socrates
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
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