Best 153 quotes in «absurdity quotes» category

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

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

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

Do not sanction an absurdity.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

The absurd is sin without God.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?

There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side of his work, about Algeria, the heat and so on.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.

All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises in individual, when displayed ego and self portrayed images are not recognised by anyone.

A partir du moment où elle est reconnue, l'absurdité est une passion, la plus déchirante de toutes.