Absurd Quote by Tertullian Download Open image “It is to believed because it is absurd.” — Tertullian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Existentialism
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle 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
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image