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
A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity. — John Locke Copy Share Image
There are some people who, when they fall in love or feel envious, may easily feel rejected. Any real or perceived rejection… — Ruben Diaz Sr Copy Share Image
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“A conspiracy theorist is a critical thinker playing out-of-bounds; although, and this is clear and obvious enough, free-thinking still does not automatically… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Where is the absurdity of the world? Is it this resplendent glow or the memory of its absence? With so much sun… — Albert Camus 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
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative… — David Salle 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
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one… — Michael Bakunin Copy Share Image
“I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men [sic] who made war as you study an… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“If you’ll pardon me for making this somewhat prosaic observation – maybe that’s what life is, or ends up being most of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex¦I woke up and giggled because you dont pick up a… — Shalini Copy Share Image
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“Once they have slept together they will have to find something else to veil the enormous absurdity of their existence.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“I'm still trying to wrap my head around the absurdity of the fact that the day before she was here, and now,… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
“I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I… — Ralph Ellison 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
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image