Absurd Quotes

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Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health,… — Thomas Bernhard
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd… — Thomas Nagel
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -… — Paul Davies
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it… — Beryl Markham
This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished… — Chiwetel Ejiofor
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet,… — Metrodorus of Chios
Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of… — Hendrik Verwoerd
I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd. — Wilhelm Reich
The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are… — Philip Gourevitch
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy… — Murray Rothbard
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. — Aleister Crowley
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer… — Eliphas Levi
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts. — Benjamin Graham
So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd… — Unknown Author
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to… — Octave Mirbeau
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or… — Thomas Piketty
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate.… — Leslie Charteris
Thereâ€™s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It… — Jennie Runk
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare — Martin Esslin

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