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No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
The vast majority of fantasy football fans, myself included, revel in the absurdity of it all.
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.
I've always felt that Donald Trump was a Dickensian character because he is so ridiculous. With his hair and his arrogance, he is certainly Dickensian in his absurdity.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.
The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.
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.
We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.'
There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.