The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy. ” — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
