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Absurdity Quotes

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

"All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

"Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

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When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

T. Colin Campbell (2014). “The Low-Carb Fraud”, p.9, BenBella Books, Inc.

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

"Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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

"The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.126, Criss Jami

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

Francis ATTERBURY (Bishop of Rochester.) (1740). “Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions”, p.67

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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

Thomas Paine (1826). “An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix”, p.34

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.243, Macmillan

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

Bernard Levin (1970). “Run it Down the Flagpole: Britain in the Sixties”