The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
“When you believe in absurdities, it will be very easy for you to commit atrocities.” — Chidi Ejeagba Copy Share Image
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
“From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis...” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I… — Mary Martha Sherwood Copy Share Image
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there… — William Osler Copy Share Image
What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reason other than because… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Everything changes, today's tears are tomorrow's absurdities, after all.” — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image