They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
“A man who deals in harmonies, who only matches stars with angels, or lambs with spring flowers, he indeed may be frivolous. But a man who ventures to combine an angel and an octopus must have some serious view of the universe.”