I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
Interpretation
Engaging in honest debate to seek truth and right ideas is a worthy effort.
In this quote, Charles Krauthammer emphasizes the importance of rational discourse in the search for truth and ethical principles. He suggests that through honest debate and thorough argumentation, individuals can engage in a noble pursuit that contributes to the greater understanding of right ideas and moral clarity, highlighting the value of integrity in intellectual discussions.
In practice
During a political discussion, I might say, 'As Charles Krauthammer once stated, the pursuit of truth through honest debate is a noble undertaking.'
If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.
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