Absurdity Quote by George Tyrrell Download Open image “The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.” — George Tyrrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdity Ads Argument God's Favor
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by… — Michael Bakunin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing how-so-ever absurd which is not defended by some theologian.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination. — George Tyrrell Copy Share Image
We do not need to prove religion to [people], but to show them that they are religious. — George Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of free will would be helpless without incongruity.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image