A Quote by Francis Bacon

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

Francis Bacon

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Absurdity Boldness Great Seldom Some Without

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.

Vaclav Havel

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

Andy Stanley

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Francis Bacon

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

Denis Johnson

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Thomas Huxley

Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

Vaclav Havel

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Bertrand Russell

Without Holy Spirit boldness, the world will remain unevangelized... there can never be a substitute for the power of the Spirit working through willing men and women, and that power will bring boldness.

George Verwer

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

Christopher Robin Milne

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

Georges Danton

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

Georges Danton

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.

George Washington

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

Aberjhani

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.

Albert Camus

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

I don't think boldness should be associated with showing off skin. It's not the basis of boldness.