absurdity

quote: Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...

quote: In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity

quote: To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that
peoples our forests with assassins.
[Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une
absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]

quote: Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

quote: Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion

quote: In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence... and loathing seizes him.

quote: The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.

quote: An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

quote: Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

quote: An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

quote: Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

quote: We [must not] underestimate the enormity of the claim [made by the Jews]. Again and again in the Pentateuch, the psalms, the prophets, and the subsequent writings which derive from them, the claim is made that the creator of the entire universe has chosen to live uniquely on a small ridge called Mount Zion, near the eastern edge of the Judean hill-country. The sheer absurdity of this claim, from the standpoint of any other worldview (not least that of Enlightenment philosophy), is staggering. The fact that Assyria, Egy

quote: The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.

quote: Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

quote: In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

quote: The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

quote: An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

quote: The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

quote: They're ironic statements on the absurdity of our fears.

quote: No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

quote: No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

quote: That's an absurdity, and Harland knows it.

quote: In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

quote: If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

quote: This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

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