"He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity."

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Source : "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

Baruch Spinoza

#Absurdity Quotes

“Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for.Â Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satanâ€™s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adamâ€™s lapse was passion.”
“You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.”
“It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.”
“The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.”
“Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.”
“If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.”

Source : John Ross MacDuff (1878). “Eventide at Bethel; or, The night-dream of the desert, an Old Testament chapter (Gen. xxviii) in providence and grace”
“Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He does. It's just that he doesn't want to play by anybody else's rules. This idea that it is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven is Satan's motto, and it turns out that this is also the motto of contemporary atheists such as Christopher Hitchens.”
“Hyperinflation is not going to happen in this country, will never happen... The Fed putting so much money into the system is not going to create the risk of hyperinflation in the future. We have a strong independent Federal Reserve with a very strong mandate from the Congress, and they will do what's necessary to keep inflation low and stable over time.”

Source : "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. March 29, 2009.

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