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When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

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Osamu DazaiBlue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted w...

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was...

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And ...

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And ...

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What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of...

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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most cer...

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I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find ...

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art