Absurdity Quote by Eric Hoffer

Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a desire which…

— Richard Salter Storrs

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

“A wish for the irrational is not to be achieved, whether the sacrificial victims are willing or not. But men will not cease to…

— Ayn Rand

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

— Aldous Huxley

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion and friendship in and through your life.”

— Keith Ward

“Your willingness to sacrifice yourself for something greater than your own desires is what will bring you victory. Only in the face of death…

— Bella Forrest

“if any one shall endeavour to offer a sacrifice merely to outward appearance, unexceptionably, in due order, and according to appointment, while in his…

— The Church Fathers

“Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this; however fashionable despair about…

— Robertson Davies

“Man in the misery of his illusions and unsatisfied desires, wings his flight to different religions, and doctrines, seeks redeception, a hypnotic, a palliative…

— Austin Osman, Spare

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

— Ayn Rand

The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea…

— Emma Goldman