I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
For God's sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Making movies is always pretty funny if you take a step back. If you actually look around and realise this is all… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken;… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“In New Orleans, absurdity is like the humidity. It permeates everything, until you stop noticing it. It connects everything and everyone in… — Michael Reilly Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in… — Eva Hesse 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
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I… — Thucydides 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
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities.… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
“ The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have 'normal jobs' where… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/292/aberjhani-1814_absurdity_some-have-speculated-that-the-way-albert_3160804.jpg)
