It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
If you and I believe two different things, I can attack you verbally all day, but if I can make you laugh… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“the existentialists did say that life was all about pulling the victory of meaning from the jaws of senseless absurdity” — Mathew Mather Copy Share Image
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her. — Claudia Black Copy Share Image
Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I agree completely with Secretary Colin Powell, who said today this is an absurdity. And so I think the American people will… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“HAMM: Scoundrel! Why did you engender me? NAGG: I didn't know. HAMM: What? What didn't you know? NAGG: That it'd be you.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
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