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absurd
«It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.»
«Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Humanity,
War
| Keywords:
absurd, Death itself, once more, phenomenon, prevented, table, unfair
«Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
absurd, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, Christianity, infect, infected, infecting, infects, Religions of the world, ridiculous
«Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.»
«How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
absurd, demand, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, liberties
«First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Theory
| Keywords:
absurd, admitted, adversaries, attacked, claim, insignificant, obvious