“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. — Rivka Galchen 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
all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I… — Mary Martha Sherwood Copy Share Image
What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand—that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Maybe you’re not a believer, but if you’re honest, you’ll have to agree that something is wrong with this place. Senseless violence,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that people fail to appreciate about the social justice movement where it interfaces with the academy is that… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
“Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture… — Allison Glock Copy Share Image
When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drink, he had… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Singing in the bathroom is interior stupidity. Outside the bathroom is exterior absurdity. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
![“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing. [Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777]” quote by Frederick the Great](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a1/frederick-the-great-8525_absurdity_as-to-your-newton-i-confess-i-do-not-und_1077457.jpg)
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