This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a…

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

— Bertrand Russell

I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on…

— Philip Kitcher

Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption,…

— Jacques Derrida

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

— Anonymous

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

— Anonymous

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a…

— Agnes Repplier

“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?”

— Sherwood Anderson

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because…

— Leo Tolstoy

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell

“Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.”

— Bertrand Russell

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For a start,…

— George Pattison

The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself to be…

— Bertrand Russell

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being,…

— Bertrand Russell