Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.” — Vipin Behari Goyal Copy Share Image
“My priority is not to be called an atheist or believer, but to be human. My priority is not to peddle any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once… — David C. Coates Copy Share Image
“College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches… — Betty Friedan 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
“For if we regard space and time as properties that must, as regards their possibility, be found in things in themselves, [...]… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“To speak evil' is to speak this fateful, paradoxical situation that is the reversible concatenation of good and evil. That is to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be.… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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