Ad Absurdum Quotes

#1. The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust?

Chris Mooney

#2. The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

George Tyrrell

#3. Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

G.H. Hardy

#4. The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

Frederick C. Beiser

#5. But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

H.L. Mencken

#6. The dead can always hear us, my love. Why else do you think we sing? We want them to know that even though they are gone, we can still find joy.

Pierce Brown

#7. Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

#8. The Bible is not religion; it is a history of those who had religion. The religion of those who live within the covers of the Bible centered in living oracles and the ordinances of salvation. Theirs was a religion of prophets and apostles

Brad Wilcox

#9. I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

Jodi Picoult

#10. Bhutan was the first nation to establish a permanent fund to finance the long-term protection of its native and rare flora and fauna.

Eric Dinerstein

#11. Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

Nancy Sinatra

#13. Sometimes you have to lose what you have in order to gain what you need.

Katie Kacvinsky

#14. Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

Rene Carayol

#15. My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

Andres Iniesta

#16. Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Eisner

#17. Every time when you bring a smile on someone's face.
It means that the lord is showering blessings on you.

Adil Adam Memon