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Letter "A" » absurdity
«The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity»
Author: Donald Morgan
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
absurdity, Direct proportion, religious belief, religious beliefs
«The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
absurdity, deeper, energetically, in other words, sought
«People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization»
«The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
absurdity, convenient, cover, cover for, divinities, divinity, Jesus
«That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absurdity, height, one generation
«That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.»
«There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
absurdity, firmly, human head, impose, planted, repeating, solemnities, solemnity
«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.»
«The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death»
«Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurdity, gross, public opinion, scarcely
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