Absurdities Quotes

90 Absurdities quotes by 67 unique authors

I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’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
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

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