When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, . . . I became a sceptic, doubter, and unbeliever, long ere the 'Good Book' was ended.
Elmina Drake SlenkerStichwörter: philosophy youth atheism atheist girl absurdity young bible-study bible-absurdities doubter sceptic unbeliever
This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.
Larry BirdStichwörter: water absurdity clean the-neighbors
It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect of living itself seem all the more absurd; to extend this further, the notion of living one’s life for the purposes of pondering the absurdity of living was an even greater absurdity in and of itself, which thus, by reductio ad absurdum, rendered the fear of death a necessary function of life and any lack thereof, a trifling matter rooted in self-inflicted incoherence.
Ashim ShankerStichwörter: paradox reductionism absurdity fear-of-unknown absurdism fear-of-death circular-reasoning incoherence reason-for-living
Be serious,” said Enjolras. “I am wild,” replied Grantaire.
Victor HugoStichwörter: absurdity
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
AberjhaniStichwörter: philosophy literature absurdity prophecy literary-theory albert-camus famous-authors aberjhani-on-albert-camus albert-camus-100th-birthday nobel-laureates nobel-prize-in-literature algerian-authors essays-on-albert-camus french-authors literature-of-commitment winners-of-the-nobel-prize
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