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Letter "A" » absurdities
«Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Problems
| Keywords:
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«Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts»
Author: Saint John Chrysostom
| About:
Poverty,
Reason
| Keywords:
absurdities, concepts, strangest, substitutes, trusts
«What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Beauty,
Goodness
| Keywords:
absurdities, suppose, utters
«Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
absurdities, blasphemies, blasphemy, contradictions, revealed, revealed religion, species, testament, testaments, The New
«As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdities, atrocities, atrocity, believe in, commit, continue
«The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.»
«The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.»
«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditional or invented absurdities»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdities, anonymous, Book of, Book of Moses, fables, Genesis, Moses, stood, take away, The Author, The Strange, traditional, Word of God
«One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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