
“We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”
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.”
Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
"Science Past, Science Future" (1975) p. 208
General sources
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.
Source: Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923), p. 212
Source: Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism, (2001), p. 62
2013, Second Inaugural Address (January 2013)