The refutation of suicide:
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy? Emile M. Cioran
Refutation
Historical refutation as the
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God – today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one … Read more
THERE is no method
THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, … Read more
A hypothesis is something
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts. Charles Sanders Peirce
The Bobbit case, which
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal … Read more
Put bluntly, the American
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works – but our lives refute our faith. Brennan Manning
Some volumes against Deism
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands … they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough … Read more
Books are the curse
Books are the curse of the human race. Benjamin Disraeli
Nine-tenths of existing books
Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. Benjamin Disraeli
It was one thing
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation. Arthur C. Clarke