I think I was so grateful, in the years after Sleater-Kinney broke up or went on hiatus or whatever you want to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
“Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.” — Brian Spellman 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
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do. — Yue Minjun 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
Interestingly enough, for me, a character like Captain Jack, you feel like you could just continue. The possibilities are endless and limitless.… — Johnny Depp 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
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken;… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor 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
Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyondit. It is… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
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