Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“Speaking it aloud would reveal the absurdity of it, and he preferred the dream.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story. ("Introduction")” — Francis M. Nevins 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
We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect.… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a… — Arnold Gehlen Copy Share Image
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings… — David C. Coates Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One problem I have with talking about myself in the context of class divisiveness is that I can be - and indeed… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.” — Raymond M. Smullyan Copy Share Image
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“I just find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
