No matter how bad your argument is, you can be sure it’s not original.
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
There are no double standards, only invidious criteria.
There is small reason to believe, outside of a few specialized fields, that a proposition is correct because it can be persuasively argued for.
It is natural, if you believe that speech is violence, to believe that violence is speech.
There’s no shame in being wrong, only in not paying for it.
People will swallow just about any story. Only when it’s not a story do we refuse to swallow it.
Problems without solutions do less harm than solutions without problems.
I am working toward a world in which someday someone will be so wrong, so often, that he will just stop talking.
When the benighted differ with me, it is only natural, for they are benighted. When they do not, it only strengthens my case, for even the benighted agree with me.
You’re almost certainly completely wrong, so cheer up.