Absurdity Quote by Michael Bakunin

“The irony, and inherent tension, of evolutionary biology is that this search for rational coherence - for "consilience," as Wilson likes to put it…

— Abigail Lustig

“Our forebears envisioned a unified and a unifying faith, and yet somehow we have devolved in some corners of our movement into a metaphysical,…

— John Cullinan

“Since the fall of man was ethical in character (not metaphysical) the unregenerate and regenerate share the facts of the world and the rules…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of…

— Immanuel Kant

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

— Anatole Broyard

I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a good frolic…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in…

— Karl Barth

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think…

— Bill Ayers

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no…

— Anthony Burgess

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good…

— Susan Sontag

In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling…

— Richard Rodriguez