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Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.
It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Her confidence is extraordinary, her impertinence unforgivable, her words terribly true.
Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolute?
Yes," he said, "in one sense, of course it is
utterly unreasonable.
Craziness, indeed. And
Everything is absurd.
I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.
How utterly low.
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.
Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse fall in love with a beautiful princess named Pea? The answer is..
Yes. Of course it's ridiculous.
Love is ridiculous.
But love is also wonderful. And powerful.
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.
Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
Ignorance is the mother of presumption
It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
Surrender to the ridiculous
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
It is the height of irony to prejudge someone of prejudice.
Only when you die will you cease to feel ridiculous.
Bollocks! Bollocks, bollocks.
It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.
What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing!
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Impossible is in the dictionary of fools
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem ... ridiculous.
He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
It's crazy and it's funny. It's an outrageous comment, an outrageous claim.
Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death
Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
I can't even say the word, it's too early in the day to get upset.
Abhorrent and beyond inappropriate, reachable only through hours of hiking into the Realm of Really Goddam Wrong.
THE MADNESS NEVER STOPS
You are nothing but an arrogant and blasphemous shit.
It's weird that impossible is even a word.
If there's - one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life.
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have come to pass in it without them.
Irrationality loves company.
We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.
The delusional is no longer marginal.
What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary questions of morality - as if an instinct in such matters were truly the last thing to be taken for granted in our time.
anti-intellectual
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
To expect an impossibility is madness.
My hypocrisy only goes so far.
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.
There is no absurdity so palpable that one could not fix it firmly in the head of every man on earth provided one began to imprint it before his sixth year by ceaselessly rehearsing it before him with solemn earnestness.
If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.
I am a contrarian.
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.
When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd.
The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is.
I don't know what else to say."
"There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can't change years of absurdity.
To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.
Ingratitude is monstrous.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.
I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis.
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.
The absurd is sin without God.
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
This is not suitable for me"- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say 'will not suit' is an offense.
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
We the unwilling, led by the unqualified, will perform the unbelievable for the ungrateful
Disbelief is the root of the impossible.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Impossible is such a stupid word.
This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.
Think your own thoughts.
...and that's the blank unholy suprise of it.
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable ... you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference.
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Excuse me for troubling your capraesque lives with this first-ever note of moral unclarity.
Petty mind mocks.
In response to the extraordinary
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.
Everything is inconceivable. The whole world is inconceivable to the strict logic of ideas. And yet the world exists to our senses, and we exist in it. There must be a necessity superior to our conceptions.
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.
I'm against fashionable thinking.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.