“The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Did not the statement, "You do not exist," contain a logical absurdity?” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
“When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.” — Junius Copy Share Image
“- I don’t know what else to say. - There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can’t change… — Cameron Trost 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
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
But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when… — David Lynch 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
The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
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
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I am here to determine my relationship. Simon goggled. She couldn't be talking about him. Could she? Do you see that man?… — Shalini Copy Share Image
“The executioner's argument was that you couldn't cut of something's head unless there was a trunk to sever it from. He'd never… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell 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
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Singing in the bathroom is interior stupidity. Outside the bathroom is exterior absurdity. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad. — George Raft Copy Share Image
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out. — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world. — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image