Absurdities Quotes

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Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every… — Thomas Jefferson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him,… — John Fowles
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. — Lewis Mumford
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them… — David Hume
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. — Bertrand Russell
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago.… — Wilhelm Reich
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real,… — Richard Dawkins
Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities. — Steig Larsson
Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city… — Richard Yates
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the… — John Green
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of… — Stephenie Meyer
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. — Voltaire
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really… — David Lynch
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has… — Thomas Paine
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! — Agnes Repplier
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht

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