Absurdities Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

— Archimedes

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been…

— Samuel Johnson

“The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception…

— Samuel Johnson

“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the…

— Sigmund Freud

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

— Walter Savage Landor

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the…

— Anonymous

“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?”

— Sherwood Anderson

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

— Walter Savage Landor

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because…

— Leo Tolstoy

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he…

— Mary Astell

But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room…

— William Osler