“Postmodernism, the school of "thought" that proclaimed "There are no truths, only interpretations" has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
I am here to determine my relationship. Simon goggled. She couldn't be talking about him. Could she? Do you see that man?… — Shalini Copy Share Image
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that… — Roald Dahl 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
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.” — Ron Brackin 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
It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up. — David Lynch 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
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
