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“He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.”

Mean Suffering Dies Produce Fool Prove Evidence Mere Doctrine Absurd Martyr Martyrdom Knaves

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.”

Knows Hands Dies Term Essentials Evidence Logic Absurd Command Equations Suppressing

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the immediate, you will never reach the ultimate. Your idea that you were born and that you will die is absurd – both logic and experience contradict it.”

Ifs Ideas Dies Born Doubt Logic Ultimate Conviction Absurd

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.”

Ideas Country Form Dies Dying Dangerous Willing Concepts Killing Absurd Willing To Die

Author:Mick Jagger

“To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.”

World May Seems Moving Dies Lost Fellows Absurd Centre Fragments Foreigners Persecuted Countrymen

Book:And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Source: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos