How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer.
Every ABSURDITY has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright.
People who cannot recognize a palpable ABSURDITY are very much in the way of civilization.Agnes Repplier 1858-1950, American Author, Social Critic.
At any street corner the feeling of ABSURDITY can strike any man in the face.Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer.
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer.
Unaware of the ABSURDITY of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.Alexander Herzen 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker.
ABSURDITY. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist. ''The Devil's Dictionary''
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.Anthony Hope 1863-1933, British Writer.
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.Archibald Macleish 1892-1982, American Poet.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.Arthur Miller 1915-, American Dramatist.
In the sphere of thought, ABSURDITY and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher.
There is no ABSURDITY so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher.
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.Cardinal J. Newman 1801-1890, British Preacher.
Our system is the height of ABSURDITY, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.Claude Levi-Strauss 1908-, French Anthropologist.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an ABSURDITY any day, as to syllogistic truth. The ABSURDITY may turn out truer.D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930, British Author.
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861, British Poet.
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.Fitzhugh Dodson.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.French Proverb Sayings of French Origin.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the ABSURDITY of existence and loathing seizes him.Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author.
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential ABSURDITY of many of one's own cherished beliefs.Gore Vidal 1925-, American Novelist, Critic.
That which seems the height of ABSURDITY in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist.
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.John Updike 1932-, American Novelist, Critic.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an ABSURDITY he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman.
When a person is determined to believe something, the very ABSURDITY of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.Junius 1769-1771, Anonymous British Letter Writer.
Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.Laurence Sterne 1713-1768, British Author.My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet.
The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its ABSURDITY.Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician .There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist.
In politics, an ABSURDITY in public business is going into it.Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor.
In politics, an ABSURDITY is not a handicap.Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor.
It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit.
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit.
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit.
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet.
Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.R. D. Laing 1927-1989, British Psychiatrist.
Almost all ABSURDITY of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author.
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet.
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.Source Unknown.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE.
The privilege of ABSURDITY; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679, British Philosopher.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.Thomas Mann 1875-1955, German Author, Critic.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.Utterly Russell.
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own ABSURDITY to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.Vaclav Havel 1936-, Czech Playwright, President.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of ABSURDITY --the more energetically meaning is sought.Vaclav Havel 1936-, Czech Playwright, President.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer.
Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would get into trouble.W. Russell Maltby.
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.Willem De Kooning 1904-, Dutch-born American Artist.
