When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.
You do not need intellectuality for deep faith. You do not need it for behaving humanely towards people whether fellow Muslims or non-Muslims. You do not need a concept, a theory, you do not need intellectual arguments for justifying a way of living that is already in place in order for it to proceed.
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated by way of subjection and submissiveness. Do you want to try and demonstrate that the king exists? Will you do so by offering a string of proofs, a series of arguments? No. If you are serious, you will demonstrate the king's existence by your submission, by the way you live. And so it is with demonstrating God's existence. It is accomplished not by proofs but by worship. Any other way is but a thinker's pious bungling.
I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.
I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created. . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.
We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win arguments but to win souls. . . Such an apologetic will need to breathe a spirit of humanity, that humility and compassion which understand the anxieties and questions of people.
The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together. . . For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason. . . that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.
Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.
It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.
I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.