Top Sophistry Quotes

The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he...

Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there...

Sophistry Definition

(n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.

(n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.

Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that t...

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand h...

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.