Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once… — David C. Coates Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do… — Lev Yilmaz Copy Share Image
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant… — Ayn Rand 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
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps… — Thomas Hobbes 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
Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned… — Felix Guattari 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
So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
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The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to… — Jon Glaser Copy Share Image
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of free will would be helpless without incongruity.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little… — George Richard Marek Copy Share Image
We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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