“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture… — Allison Glock Copy Share Image
“Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that people fail to appreciate about the social justice movement where it interfaces with the academy is that… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once… — David C. Coates 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
“It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one… — Michael Bakunin Copy Share Image
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some people who, when they fall in love or feel envious, may easily feel rejected. Any real or perceived rejection… — Ruben Diaz Sr Copy Share Image
A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
![“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing. [Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777]” quote by Frederick the Great](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a1/frederick-the-great-8525_absurdity_as-to-your-newton-i-confess-i-do-not-und_1077457.jpg)
