If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties,… — Louis Jourdan Copy Share Image
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people?… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? BERENGER: Yes, but for a man… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I like Paul Ryan, and to a certain extent, I feel bad for him. But this is a moment of moral choice.… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is when we stop trying to understand or interrogate apparently 'absurd' phenomena - like the category of the 'new' in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish --… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now… — Plato Copy Share Image
I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“I'm still trying to wrap my head around the absurdity of the fact that the day before she was here, and now,… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
"Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me,… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may… — Mark E. Hyman Copy Share Image
I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids.… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
