Absurd Quotes

832 quotes by 630 authors

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. — Elizabeth Goudge
Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation.… — Rajneesh
If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good… — Thomas A. Edison
The logic of the heart is absurd — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore… — Murray Rothbard
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,… — Fritjof Capra
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be… — William James
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting… — James Clerk Maxwell
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed… — Edward Teller
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything… — Erwin Schrodinger
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious:… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man… — Archibald MacLeish
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else… — Rajneesh
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." — H. L. Mencken
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is… — Charles Darwin
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and… — George H. Smith

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