Absurdity Quotes

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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. — Joseph Addison
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -… — Annie Besant
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. — Ambrose Bierce
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all,… — Samuel Butler
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every… — Lord Byron
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our… — Albert Camus
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man… — Christopher Hitchens
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing… — Norman Angell
When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions… — Sigmund Freud
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the… — Thomas Jefferson
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps… — Adolf Hitler
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. — Oswald Mosley
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser… — Denis Diderot
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man… — Archibald MacLeish
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier

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