Absurdity Quote by Thomas Hobbes

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

— Albert Camus

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them,…

— Albert Camus

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

— Albert Camus

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

— Thomas Nagel

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly…

— Samuel Butler

“It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own.”

— John Stuart Mill

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

— Eugene Ionesco

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of…

— Albert Camus

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine

One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

— Anonymous

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte