What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
“Walk around with an open can of tuna in your pocket. You know, for a way to start conversations and offer strangers… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“This line of reasoning would seem to lead to the absurd conclusion that the world is filled with noises no one hears,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This… — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Ive lived in London all my life. There are some parts of London where a high percentage of people are on the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
For a smart man, why would Trump conduct absurd limp-wristed missile strikes while the Chinese are sitting with him in Mar-a-Lago. Do… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A stronger race will drive out the weaker ones, for the vital urge in its ultimate form will break down the absurd… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human… — Richard Dawkins 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
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
'24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
“What if dating apps are mostly populated by Deep Fakes, designed to get you to waste your life swiping right and keep… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and… — Anonymous 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
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
“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“TYMPANI: Well, things happen fast down here. You gotta' be prepared. One day you're raising chickens, the next day you're buying up… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?” Oh God. She wants to know if I’m clever. I… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm looking back at what I did and how it works. In a sense I'm waiting to see how people will respond.… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
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