Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.

Her reasoning is full of tricks And butterfly suggestions, I know no point to which she sticks; She begs the simplest questions, And, when her premises are str…

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Using a point to show that a point is not a point is not as good as using a nonpoint to show that a point is not a point.