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Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.

[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.  (on Craig Bellamy)

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

I actually have to consciously stay away from CNN and MSNBC because it will rot my brain and start having me agree with them as they have an argument between the right and the far right while making it seem they are righteous torch-bearers for democracy. Corporate media is insidiously numbing!

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.

I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

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

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where we put troops and don`t put troops and make it both a generational argument and a change argument. And he`s got a chance to do that.

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.