Philosophy Quote by René Descartes

“This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One”

— Bertrand Russell

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”

— George Orwell

“It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of wonder become…

— Oliver James

“I am marvelously absurd in my cloudless thought formation.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West

“To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“There is nothing how-so-ever absurd which is not defended by some theologian.”

— Anonymous

“To recognize what is absurd and to accept it need not dim the eye for the tragic side of existence; quite on the contrary,…

— Gregor von Rezzori

“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson