Absurdities Quotes

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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to… — Baron d'Holbach
From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There… — Arnold Gehlen
You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all… — Martin Parr
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can… — Martin Gardner
In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders… — Jacque Fresco
I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, itâ€™s not for everyone...But… — Diana Vreeland
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of… — Sylvia Pankhurst
The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is… — Edward Anthony Spitzka
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts — Saint John Chrysostom
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread… — Frederick The Great
Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular… — Susan Abulhawa
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without… — Thomas Hobbes
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities. — Sherwood Anderson
I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good… — Charles Spurgeon
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one… — Ayn Rand
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the… — Aldous Huxley
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane,… — Thomas Merton
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at… — Henry Steele Commager

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