Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even… — Willem de Kooning
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. — Slobodan MiloseviÄ‡
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air,… — Wayne Thiebaud
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should… — Napoleon Bonaparte
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends… — Saint Basil
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when… — David
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends,… — John Muir
A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn… — Frederick Lenz
There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous. — Frederick Lenz
The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are… — Emo Philips
To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity. — Frederick Lenz
That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and… — Wendell Berry
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both… — Vladimir Lenin
There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her. — Claudia Black
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and… — Georg Baselitz
In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd. — Tim Heidecker
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in… — Noam Chomsky
Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or… — George MacDonald
For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims. — Miroslav Volf
One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious… — Charlie Campbell
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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