Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
CALVIN: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand—that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I… — Mary Martha Sherwood Copy Share Image
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“The world is absurd. Ugly absurd. To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful… — Tzvi Freeman Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say:… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than… — John Maus Copy Share Image
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