It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.