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Absurdity Quotes by Agnes Repplier
- People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
- 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!
More Absurdity Quotes
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own… — Joseph Addison
- This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,… — 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,… — Samuel Butler
- My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite… — 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… — Albert Camus
- It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because… — 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… — 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… — Norman Angell
- When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to… — 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,… — Thomas Jefferson