Absurdities Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as…

— Andrew J. Bernstein

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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