All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
Perceptions really do define what our realities are. What we're hoping to do with 'Atlanta' is to really shatter that. To shatter… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That's part of the comedy, too, is we do have jokes throughout of hanging a lantern on the absurdity of the world.… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Shamanism has a long history and exists to this day because of its ties to universal emotions such as happiness, sorrow, resentment,… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to… — Sigmund Freud 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
“What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Everything in the Universe denies 'nothing'. To… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only… — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A… — Keith Preston Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“as human beings, we must inevitably see the universe from a centre lying within ourselves and speak about it in terms of… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
![“It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as are in the books [The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John]. They are more numerous and striking than I had any expectation of finding, when I began this…” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/211/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_it-is-i-believe-impossible-to-find-in-an_934757.jpg)
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