People generally quarrel because they cannot argueGilbert Keith ChestertondiscussionquarrelangeropinioncritismCopy this quote
“Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible
“A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy
“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.