Absurdity Quotes

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I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it… — Charles Horton Cooley
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… — Charles Horton Cooley
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
When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the… — Lev Yilmaz
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and… — H. L. Mencken
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. — Criss Jami
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on… — Aasif Mandvi
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 really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity… — Jason Bateman
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India. — Upamanyu Chatterjee
But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered?… — Roger Cotes
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It… — Chester Himes
If love doesnâ€™t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite… — Jonathan Hull
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. — Baruch Spinoza
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can… — Joan Bauer
Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur… — Arthur Schopenhauer
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. — Nicolas Chamfort
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the… — Rajneesh

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