Absurdity Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Albert Camus

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

— Henry David Thoreau

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

— Sun Tzu

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him

— Ernest A Jones

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

— Ernest Jones

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

— Thucydides

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

— Natan Sharansky

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

— Anonymous