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Quotes about Absurdity


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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Pierce

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.

Douglas Nietzsche

The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.

Percy Johnston

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.

Thomas Hobbes

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

John Stuart Mill

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

Marcel Proust

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

James Anthony Froude

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]

John Philpot Curran

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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