It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the… — Vincenzo Galilei Copy Share Image
Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we… — Hyon Gyon 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
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“HAMM: Scoundrel! Why did you engender me? NAGG: I didn't know. HAMM: What? What didn't you know? NAGG: That it'd be you.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
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
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 have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity. — Kedar Joshi 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
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I think that the intentions are genuine in the search for authenticity, but it can tip over into absurdity so quickly. I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers 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
