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“Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.”

People Believe Made Dies Heaven Water Decision Week Birth Absurd Banking Ceremony Hollow Baptism Drop Of Water Going To Heaven Personal Decisions

Author:Max Lucado

“I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.”

Believe Mean Belief I Believe Possibility Metaphor I Believe In Absurd Believe In God I Believe In God

Author:Reza Aslan

“The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.”

Thinking World Imagine Absurd Vanity Imagine That

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.”

Ideas Creativity Threat Motherhood Absurd

Author:Zadie Smith

“There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”

Absurd Islands Continents Supposing Supposing That

Book:Paine: Political Writings

Source: Paine: Political Writings

“Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.”

People Ifs Trying Seems Happens Sound Chance Laughing Miracle Absurd Fantastic Prophet Reasonable Occupation Predictions Unbelievable Scorn Discouraging Visualizing

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.”

People Ifs Believe Enough Absurd Propaganda Repeats

Author:William James

“When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.”

People Culture Accepting Normal Absurd Futility

Author:Jacques Barzun

“He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.”

May Seems Energy Wish Pleasure Influence Mankind Creation Raises Careful Absurd Insult Temples Be Careful Demolish

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.”

Church Devil Absurd Legendary Enigma

Author:L. Frank Baum

“It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.”

Ifs Humans Certain Study Psychology Prison Absurd Generalization Misrepresentation

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.”

May Ideas Seems Certain Capable Connections Importance Madness Extremes Invention Absurd Judgement Isolation Acquire Links Insignificant

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.”

Said Philosopher Ridiculous Absurd Cynical

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.”

Country Sweet Deeds Absurd 4th Of July

Author:Sallust

“The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.”

Military Weapons Threat Nuclear Absurd Nuclear Weapons Hammers Curb Mosquitoes Implied Swarms Guerrillas

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“I try and remind our viewers that climate is always in a state of flux and yes, the world has warmed over the last 25 years but claiming that Katrina is a product of global warming is absurd. We have had much stronger hurricanes hit the United States in the past, the Labor Day or Keys hurricane of 1935 and Camille in 1969 to name just two. There is much more development now on our shores.”

“I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.”

World Trying Meaningful Absurd Chinese Make Sense Cynical Cynicism Absurdity Famous Artist Meaningfulness Chinese Art

Author:Yue Minjun

“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”

Men Mind Country States Whole Justice Half Practice Men And Women Following Pursuit Absurd Our Country Racial Justice

Book:Laws

Source: Laws

“According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.”

Ifs Two Religion Three Left Equal Tables Add Absurd Heavenly Peculiar Dogma Three Times Celestial Trinity Idiotic Multiplication Subtraction

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.”

People Wells Sometimes Character Stories Reality Film Cases Too Much Events Shots Cat Army Inspired Absurd Regulation Toms Harsh Accused Arrested Trenches Harsh Reality French Army

Author:Christian Carion

“The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.”

Trying Ideas Able Design Absurd

Author:Milton Glaser

“It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.”

“"Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me, so I just stared at them. I stared at both of them. And they were like, 'Alright, fine.'”

Ifs Life Would Be Courses Fine Absurd Bridges Alright Carter

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.”

Thinking Knows Absurd

Author:Danny DeVito

“Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.”

Littles Made Ends Bigs Seems Life Is Desire Next Minutes Absurd One Minute

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off”

Seems Trouble Absurd Clock Sensible Alarms Alarm Clocks

Book:Three at Wolfe's Door

Source: Three at Wolfe's Door

“Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd!”

World Behinds Pride Despair Mouths Fruit Absurd Breasts Immense Good Sense Hideous Reservoirs Unfathomable

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.”

Men Beautiful Moving Night Left Dark Poor Habit Absurd Sensitive Marvelous Dark Night

Author:Louis Aragon

“The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.”

“The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.”

People World Courses Fields Civilization Towns Absurd Target Drifting Hemisphere Extermination

Author:Alva Myrdal

“It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.”

People Ifs Knows May Soul Matter Reason Enough Christian Pain Christ Acting Know How Study Taken Building Complaining Kingdoms Absurd Wicked Building Up Great Business

Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns.”

“Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.”

“I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.”

People Thinking Want Feels Looks Kind Littles Different Facts Bits Nature Differences Strange Creatures Little Bit Empathy Familiar Absurd Perceive Sculpture Strangeness

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”

Men Needs Mind Ability Quality Moral Empathy Admire Absurd

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.”

America Mother Curiosity Absurd Ruins Manners Insulting

Book:Epigrams and Aphorisms

Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms

“That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.”

Men Wells Hell Eternal Punishment Absurd Mortals Disagreeable Demise

Book:Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

Source: Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

“Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid”

Way Art Care Desire Novel Taken Stupid Instinct Absurd Trends

Author:Giuseppe Verdi

“If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.”

Ifs Men Mean Purpose Values Universe Consequence Ultimate Atheist Absurd Immortality Significance Prisoner Execution Doomed There Is No God

Author:William Lane Craig

“It is absurd to look for perfection.”

Looks Perfection Absurd

Book:Pioneering modern painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865-1885

Source: Pioneering modern painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865-1885

“If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness.”

Ifs May Real Moments Seems Dies Consciousness Dying Ultimate Independent Threat Notion Passing Absurd Passings Fixed Emptiness Entity Static Passing Away Demise Instability Flux Unwind Looming

Author:Mark Epstein

“Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.”

Absurd Organized Desperate Offensive Womanhood Prostitution Outrageous

Author:Steven Morrissey

“Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.”

War Three Absurd Cheer Pauses

Author:Benito Mussolini

“America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.”

War America History Laughing Sun Mountain Down And West South Notion East Absurd Hills Civil War Compass Up And Down American Civil War Sun Rise Over The Hill Us Civil War

Author:Sam Watkins

“Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.”

Firsts Science Belief Understood Absurd

Author:Peter Abelard

“Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.”

Quality Missing Research Percent Absurd Data Inference

Author:Peter Pronovost

“Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.”

Country Support Members Down And Terrorism Terrorist Absurd Administration Counter Terrorism

Author:Frank Lautenberg

“The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.”

Ifs Way Said Past Happened Normal Absurd Unlikely

Book:Vertigo

Source: Vertigo

“The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.”

Form Song Courses Born Love Is And Love Madness Noise Absurd Insane Realms Irrational Distracted Obsessive

Author:Nick Cave

“Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.”

People Thinking Firsts Country Shows Born Walks Existence Walking Taste Originals Absurd Funeral Noticing Grotesque Idiotic Idiocy

Book:The Loser: A Novel

Source: The Loser: A Novel

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