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«No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.»
«In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity»
«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...»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt,
Hope,
Life
| Keywords:
absurdity, certainties, experiencing, first moment, given birth, hopelessness, nourishes, perhaps, profound, sense experience, soil, soiled, soiling, soils
«Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.»
«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.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
absurdity, descend, get around, jump, lowest, modern man, obviously, spiral, spiraling, spirals
«In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absurdity, brief, dominion, dominions, Masters, periods, perversities, perversity, sphere, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Masters
«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.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
absurdity, awfulness, consciousness, loathed, loathes, loathing, perceived, seizes
«Every absurdity has a champion to defend it»
«Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative»
«I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdity, at first sight, bargain, beforehand, black person, brown, imagined, locks, raven, ravens, struck, The Bargain, The Raven, The Ravens
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