Sophistry Quotations

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.

Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.