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• El primer impulso, más analítico, fue utilizar técnicas o tendencias muy racionales pero un tanto absurdas -mapeo, cartografía y arquitectura- para intentar comprender quién era yo en mi tiempo, en mi espacio y en mi entorno político. Pero la comprensión teórica de algo tiene un límite de verdad.

  Julie Mehretu

  Space, Political, Understanding

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• When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

  Jacque Fresco

  Answers, Way, Asks

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• We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Yards, Looks

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Self, Encounters, Levels

  "You can snort as much cocaine as you want and have as many beautiful women as you want ... but it doesn't make you happy" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2008.

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• We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

  Jack Gilbert

  Heart, Brain, Habitat

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.293, Knopf

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• The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Understanding, Facts, Unexpected

  Fear and Trembling "Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration" (1843)

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• For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Doe, Firsts

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• The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Confused, Real, Men

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  War, Civilization, Citizens

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• But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

  James McBride

  Race, Differences, Doe

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• Being Christian without the Church doesn't make sense. That's why the great Paul VI, said that the most absurd dichotomy is loving Christ without the Church. To listen to Christ, but not the Church. To be with Christ, but stay at the margins of the Church. It's not possible. It's an absurd dichotomy.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Church, Said

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• El reino que Jesús predicó y vivió se trataba de una generosidad gloriosa, alborotada y absurda.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Generosity, Kingdoms

  N. T. Wright (2004). “Luke for Everyone”, p.80, Westminster John Knox Press

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• To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

  Eugene Ionesco

  World, Ridiculous, Painful

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• Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.

  Félix J. Palma

  Cousin, Attitude, Literary Genre

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• Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a molehill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Kohinoor diamond with a bit of glass. God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations, in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.

  J. C. Ryle

  Bible, Book, Garden

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• I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

  David Hume

  God, Causes, Arise

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• La esperanza que alimenta la búsqueda de un crecimiento económico sin fin -que miles de millones de consumidores de India y China disfruten algún día del estilo de vida de europeos y estadounidenses- es una fantasía tan absurda y peligrosa como cualquier otra ideada por Al Qaeda. Condena al medio ambiente mundial a una destrucción prematura y parece que creará reservas de rabia nihilista y decepción entre cientos de millones de desposeídos, el amargo resultado del triunfo universal de la modernidad occidental, que convierte la venganza de Oriente en algo oscuramente ambiguo y todas sus victorias en verdad pírricas.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• Las hadas no son fantasía, sino una conexión con la realidad. Las hadas son irracionales, poéticas, absurdas y muy, muy sabias. Los hados dicen que hay tonterías en los dogmas y sentido en las tonterías. Los hados se expresan con gran seriedad y poco humor. Los hados se resisten a cualquier definición.

  Brian Froud

  Wise, Reality, Connections

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• I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

  Peter Mullan

  Kids, World

  "Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2011.

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• No hay nada tan absurdo como el conocimiento hilado demasiado fino.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Fine, Spun

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• Cada golfista profesional tiene un entrenador distinto para sus drives, sus aproximaciones y sus putts. En el fútbol tenemos un entrenador para 15 jugadores. Esto es absurdo.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

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• El Evangelio de un Dios que se encuentra en la carne rota, la humildad y la caridad sin medida ha derrotado a todas las viejas mentiras, ha hecho que el antiguo orden sea visiblemente insuficiente e incluso ligeramente absurdo, y ha infundido en nosotros un anhelo de amor trascendente tan profundo que -si una vez cedemos a él- nunca nos concederá descanso en otro lugar que no sea Cristo.

  David Bentley Hart

  Lying, Humility, Order

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• Ahora se nos pide seriamente que aceptemos que en los últimos años -en contra de toda la historia, en contra de toda la inteligencia- Sadam decidió unilateralmente destruir esas armas. Yo digo que tal afirmación es palpablemente absurda.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Iraq, Weapons

  "Tony Blair's Iraq War speech in full: How Labour's leader convinced MPs to vote for era-defining conflict". Article by Dan Bloom, www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2016.

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• Es una ley absurda [la sección 295A del código penal indio], pero también extremadamente peligrosa porque da a los fanáticos, ya sean hindúes, católicos o musulmanes, licencia para ofenderse. También permite a las personas que están en disputa contigo inventarse falsas acusaciones de blasfemia.

  Richard Dawkins

  Law, People, Giving

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