May 21, 2010

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Intellectual combat is won not by throwing up barricades, but by courteously leaving the field open, so that the adversary’s stupidities only break each other's noses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 199

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  1. The original Spanish is:

    El combate intelectual no se gana levantando barricadas, sino dejando cortésmente el campo libre, para que las tonterías del adversario se rompan solas las narices.

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