• MourningDove@lemmy.zipEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    And this emphasizes my point. You think that because I won’t waste my time explaining something to you, I have nothing to explain, and therefore you win.

    This clears illustrates your inability to rationalize- which shows that I made the right call.

    • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      It’s not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

      Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.

      When the last word is always the one that offers itself first, the work becomes difficult.

      You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?

      It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

      • Joseph Joubert

      https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert

      Just some musings that this exchange made me think of.

      • MourningDove@lemmy.zipEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        Yeah. He definitely has some good quotes that apply here:

        • Ask the young. They know everything.

        • When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.

        • It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything.

        • One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks.