Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is…

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

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

“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

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform…

— Benjamin Franklin