Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
George CarlinStichwörter: humor doubt reason belief skepticism absurdity credulity evidence gullibility indoctrination invisible
I can't go on, I'll go on.
Samuel BeckettStichwörter: humor fiction tragedy nihilism existentialism drama absurdity tragic-comedy
A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.'
(Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.)
[Diary entry, February 13 1756]
Stichwörter: hell mystery argument absurdity infinite excuse cover divinity-of-jesus
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
Albert CamusStichwörter: happiness absurdity
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.
Douglas AdamsStichwörter: absurdity
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.
Theodore J. KaczynskiStichwörter: society psychology drugs depression absurdity psychiatry pharmaceuticals
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert EinsteinStichwörter: hope absurd absurdity idea
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...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings
Thomas JeffersonStichwörter: atheism ignorance forgiveness atheist materialism absurdity good-works contradictions materialist untruth
They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.
Jean-Jacques RousseauStichwörter: intolerance library islam koran quran absurdity science-vs-religion gospel alexandria caliph caliph-omar gregory-the-great library-of-alexandria pontiff
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
Carl SaganStichwörter: humor reason war absurdity sagan
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