Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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Great men of action.. Never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
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The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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Many businessmen fail to understand Python principlesthe ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythonscorporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.
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The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.
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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
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity
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The prince is very brave, to love a unicorn. A cat can appreciate valiant absurdity.
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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.
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That's an absurdity, and Harland knows it.
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We felt it was a real clear case before the court that showed the absurdity of the law. Our ads were very clear. They said nothing about an election. They weren't critical of Kohl or Feingold. Of course, it's absurd you can mention Kohl but not Feingold.
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Absurdity refutes itself
No amount of manifest absurdity... Could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Today, Mr. Bennett told us his comments were meant as hypothetical. He says that he was really trying to demonstrate the limitation of one argument by showing the absurdity of another.
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