False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the…

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

— Archimedes

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been…

— Samuel Johnson

“The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception…

— Samuel Johnson

“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the…

— Sigmund Freud

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

— Walter Savage Landor

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the…

— Anonymous

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

— Sherwood Anderson

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he…

— Mary Astell

But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room…

— William Osler

“It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own.”

— John Stuart Mill

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

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create…

— Aldous Huxley