As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do. — Yue Minjun Copy Share Image
I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him. — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in… — Larry Bird Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned… — Felix Guattari Copy Share Image
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when… — David Lynch 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
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
“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
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
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.… — Dean Koontz 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
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
I am here to determine my relationship. Simon goggled. She couldn't be talking about him. Could she? Do you see that man?… — Shalini 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
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
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
“The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“Did not the statement, "You do not exist," contain a logical absurdity?” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
