Absurdity Quote by Bertrand Russell

“This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One”

— Bertrand Russell

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened…

— Aimee Mullins

Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption,…

— Jacques Derrida

I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on…

— Philip Kitcher

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual…

— Bertrand Russell

“Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.”

— Bertrand Russell

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create…

— Aldous Huxley

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

— Jane Austen

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

— Thomas Paine

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

— Voltaire