No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.