Absurdity Quotes - Page 8

• Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Ideas, Would Be, Christianity

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• all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.

  Mary Martha Sherwood

  Liars, Lying, Believe

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• I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to eat a booger it's not necessarily about that. It's about something more. It's about inviting a little bit of absurdity into the process and humanity into the process. Making sure that no matter who we are and what sort of pedestal or glamorous lighting we're under, we're all eating boogers man.

  David Gordon Green

  Men, People, Humanity

  "SXSW Interview: Nicolas Cage, David Gordon Green, and Tye Sheridan for ‘Joe’". www.geekscape.net. April 10, 2014.

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• What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.

  Christa Wolf

  Correr, Guerra, Media

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• Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature in its moments of intoxication has produced, that which men have contrived with a view to forming the minds and regulating the conduct of women, is perhaps the most completely absurd.

  Mary Hays

  Men, Views, Mind

  Mary Hays (1974). “Appeal to the men of Great Britain in behalf of women”, Dissertations-G

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• Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

  Voltaire

  Creer, Hombres, Largo

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• The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

  Tormenta Jameson

  Men, Redemption, Goes On

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.408, A&C Black

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• Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

  David Hume

  Passion, Men, Being Positive

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.213, VM eBooks

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• No se puede pensar en un absurdo mayor que un cristiano malhumorado, duro de corazón, codicioso, orgulloso y malicioso.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Proud, Malicious

  Jonathan Edwards (1824). "Tratado de los Afectos Religiosos", p.234

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• It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

  John Adams

  Views, Law, Judging

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• Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic.  Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution.  Be brave, be brave.

  Isak Dinesen

  Brave, Fantastic, Dangerous

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.55, Vintage

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• Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Guilt, Atheism, Modesty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.12, Booklassic

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• Lo que obtuve en la escuela dominical... fue simplemente la firme convicción de que la fe cristiana estaba llena de absurdos palpables, y que el Dios cristiano era absurdo.... El acto de adoración, tal y como lo llevan a cabo los cristianos, me parece más degradante que ennoblecedor. Implica postrarse ante un ser que, si realmente existe, merece ser denunciado en lugar de respetado.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cristiano, Escuela, Domingo

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• For God's sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Life, Science

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• Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

  Federico el Grande

  Christian, Eating, Treats

  Letter 215 to Voltaire on March 19, 1776. "Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great", translated by Richard Aldington, 1927.

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• Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

  Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

  Absurdity Of Life, Way, Life Is

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• It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fall, Men, Principles

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.114

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• Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Truth, Lying, Speech

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• Cuando vea una de sus "buenas copias" contemporáneas de restos históricos, hágase la siguiente pregunta: ¿No de qué estilo, sino de qué civilización es este edificio? Y el absurdo, la vulgaridad, el anacronismo y el solecismo de la estructura moderna se le revelarán de la forma más sorprendente.

  Louis Sullivan

  Moda, Civilización, Histórico

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• Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Made, Distinction, Anthropology

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1893). “The Essence of Christianity”

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• Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?

  Angelina Grimke

  Running, Men, Equality

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• Do not sanction an absurdity.

  Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

  Sanciones

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• The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Bible, Religious, Sublime

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• Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

  Stendhal

  Crush, Equality, Support

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• The absurd is sin without God.

  Albert Camus

  Sin, Absurd, Without God

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.40, Vintage

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