Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity. — John Locke Copy Share Image
For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was… — Chester Himes 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
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant? —I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people. — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to… — Tomi Ungerer 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
Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
