With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“We pretend to catch and eat more pretend bugs than could ever actually live in one cave. The number of pretend bugs… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But the Iranians are surrounded by a sea of Sunnis who hate them. And if you look on the map, you can… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . .… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The picture of the guy pissing on the chair was a picture I had to do. I had the idea of this… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I've always found it very difficult to understand the laws as far as nudity in America - how some things are pornographic… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time.… — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Are you an evolutionist? I’m an absurdist, ma’am. But let’s suppose evolution is true; what about the monkeys today? Why can’t we… — Harrison Wheeler Copy Share Image
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
