Quotes About Absurdum

#1. 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

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

Chris Mooney

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

George Tyrrell

#4. 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

#5. The first is the Credo quia absurdum of the early Father. It would imply that religious doctrines are outside reason's jurisdiction; they stand above reason. Their truth must be inwardly felt: one does not need to comprehend them.

Sigmund Freud

#6. I'll drink some wine, and then, like a latter-day Van Winkle, I'll lay me down upon this graven stone, lay my head beneath these letters RIP, and close my eyes, according to our family's old practice of falling asleep in times of trouble, and hope to awaken, renewed and joyful, into a better time.

Salman Rushdie

#7. It's mad love. The kind that makes no sense. The kind that is bigger than anything I've ever experienced. The kind that ensnares your soul and never lets go.

Jewel E. Ann

#8. When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you.
This is crazy.
I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.

James Cameron

#9. I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

Greg Saunier

#10. All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

Kelly Miller

#11. Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.

Diego Della Valle

#12. For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.

Pankaj Mishra

#13. The tyrant is a child of pride.

Sophocles

#14. Professional football's a tough game. It's a lot of contact. It's a lot of wear and tear on your body. You've got elite athletes running into each other, play after play, at high speeds. And this is something that I love and I enjoy.

John Urschel

#15. God does not consult anyone about His blessings, He decides whose life to pour blessing on

Sunday Adelaja

#16. America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Arianna Huffington

#17. Our abilities and giftedness does not end of this earth; we will continue to serve the Lord in agreement with our abilities on this earth.

Paul P. Enns