We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
Julio CortázarI am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
André BretonTags: childhood absurd absurdity
There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.
Jacques RigautIt would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)
Tags: knowledge faith humility ignorance absurdity calvin
I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has done is, allowed under it's, his church, his wing, all kinds of corruptions and villainies to grow and fester. In the name of that God terrible wars have been waged, in the name of that God terrible sexism has been allowed to spread. There are children being born all across this world that don't have enough food to eat because that God, at least his church, tells the mothers and fathers that they must procreate at all costs, and to prevent procreation with a condom is in contravention with his laws. Now, I don't believe that God exists. I think that God is creation of men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now, the better part of two thousand in fact, is that that God has been slowly and steadily accruing power. His church has been accruing power, and the men who run that church, and they are all men, are not about to give it up. If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort.
Clive BarkerTags: power atheism church horror atheist corruption theology crime absurdity comfort sexism luxury atrocity christian-theology terrible villainous
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel JohnsonTags: imitation absurdity behaviour conduct
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of
free will would be helpless without incongruity.
Tags: free-will christianity absurdity
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: life society rules authority absurdity
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
George OrwellTags: truth words absurdity mystical
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