Top 388 Absurdity Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.
[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.
Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
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.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have 'normal jobs' where they don't play pretend for a living is that... Hollywood is absurd but very open about its absurdity.
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.'
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.
