A quote, from a book I was curled up with that begged to be more widely read..
"But the moment eloquence or the language of debate enters, true reasoning becomes impossible.
For the purpose of the debater is not to find the truth but to win the argument,
and to this end he will often stray as far as possible from the real issues"
"Eloquence and debate are designed, not to decide issues,
but to sway people, for this reason they lean heavily on appeals to emotion and prejudice,
and make use of neat, clever, and sometimes humorous turns of phrase
rather than profound analysis of ideas"
"Of all this Confucious was contemptuous" Chapter "The teacher" from Confucious by H. G. Creel 1929
