If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFTWords are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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