Absurdities Quotes

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Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied… — Immanuel Kant
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of… — Leo Tolstoy
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't… — Mary Astell
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break… — Alexander Herzen
Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its… — Greg Behrendt
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India. — Upamanyu Chatterjee
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth — Eric Hoffer
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of… — Mark Twain
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have… — Thomas Paine
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long… — Vincent Van Gogh
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to… — Sara Davidson
When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence. — David Hume
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too… — William Osler
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
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. — Charles Caleb Colton
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real… — David Lynch
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. — William Osler
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. — Thomas Paine
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. — Voltaire

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