Reductio Ad Absurdum Quotes

#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. Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.

Markus Zusak

#3. She didn't know if she wanted to fight him or fuck him.

Sara Humphreys

#4. What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content - all the great things in life are done by discontented people.

Christopher Morley

#5. Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

Brent Spiner

#6. We definitely have a Wii U. It gets pulled out whenever there's a new great game coming out.

Ron Funches

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

Chris Mooney

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

George Tyrrell

#9. 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