Absurd Quotes

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal… — E. M. Forster
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Richard Kirwan
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. — Ellen Glasgow
That henceforth the absurd game of chemical noughts and crosses be tabu within the Society's precincts and that, following the practice of the Press in… — Henry Edward Armstrong
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to… — Fred Hoyle
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty… — J. L. Mackie
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a… — Niels Bohr
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. — Georges Duhamel
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The… — Robert Frost
The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of… — Robert Adams
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. — Albert Camus
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans… — Elaine Pagels
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is… — Arthur Schopenhauer
In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on… — Michael Crichton
It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest… — Paul Washer
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer… — Jacques Ellul
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different… — Pope Benedict XVI
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. — Bertrand Russell
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a… — Alexander Hamilton

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