Absurd Quote by Thomas Hobbes Download Open image “The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.” — Thomas Hobbes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Causes Conclusion Firsts Method Want
The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious. — Assar Lindbeck Copy Share Image
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the… — William James Copy Share Image
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“most methods disguise the guessing stage in some fancy language, such as “determine possible root causes.” This is making a list of guesses, and… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside… — Lauren Oliver 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 human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France 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
To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as… — Murray Rothbard 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
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