The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Making movies is always pretty funny if you take a step back. If you actually look around and realise this is all… — Fred Hechinger 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
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
For God's sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest… — Stephenie Meyer 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
The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In New Orleans, absurdity is like the humidity. It permeates everything, until you stop noticing it. It connects everything and everyone in… — Michael Reilly Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Shamanism has a long history and exists to this day because of its ties to universal emotions such as happiness, sorrow, resentment,… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there… — William Osler Copy Share Image
In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a… — David Lynch 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
We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
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