Absurdity Quote by Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Download Open image “Do not sanction an absurdity.” — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdity Existentialism Sanctions
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Never too absurd. You don't have to be mad to do something out of the ordinary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again. — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty? — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh! — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others. — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue. — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not. — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all. — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of free will would be helpless without incongruity.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
