Absurdity Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter,…

— Rumaan Alam

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

— Agnes Repplier

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to…

— John Ruskin

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

— William James

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the…

— Andre Breton

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived,…

— Catherine Crowe

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

— Vladimir Lenin

“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

— Mason Cooley

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson