“We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”
Julio Cortázar book Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Quoted in "Believe, Obey, Fight" - Page 98 - by Tracy H. Koon - Political Science – 1985.
“We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”
Julio Cortázar book Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
"Science Past, Science Future" (1975) p. 208
General sources
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
A Christmas Sermon (1890)
Context: Christian chronology gives the age of the first man, and then gives the line from father to son down to the flood, and from the flood down to the coming of Christ, showing that men have been upon the earth only about six thousand years. This chronology is infinitely absurd, and I do not believe that there is an intelligent, well-educated Christian in the world, having examined the subject, who will say that the Christian chronology is correct.
Edward Bernays (1891–1995) American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer
Source: Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923), p. 212
A. James Gregor (1929–2019) American political scientist
Source: Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism, (2001), p. 62
Ram Swarup (1920–1998) Indian historian
On Hinduism (2000)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Second Inaugural Address (January 2013)