The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. — Junius Copy Share Image
“Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a… — Arnold Gehlen Copy Share Image
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
![“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/thomas-jefferson-43_absurdity_it-is-not-to-be-understood-that-i-am-wit_1394038.jpg)
