Absurdity Quotes - Page 9

• Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

  Tryon Edwards

  Mind, May, Littles

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1191, Ravenio Books

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• Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Funny, Humour, Wit

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics

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• Nunca he escrito una obra de teatro, una historia, un poema o mi única película -nada- a menos que algo me preocupara lo suficiente, me destrozara, de hecho, como para llevarme de nuevo al absurdo de escribir. No disfruto escribiendo.

  Israel Horovitz

  Writing, Play, Stories

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• It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Believe, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

  Joseph Addison

  Silly, Opportunity, Men

  Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC

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• Quien puede hacerte creer un absurdo puede llevarte a cometer una atrocidad.

  Voltaire

  Believe, Atrocities, Commit

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• The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Party, Passion, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.49

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• The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

  Albert Camus

  Arte, Guerra, Hombres

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• Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

  Charles Fourier

  Youth, Social, Made

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• That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Fall, Philosophical

  Sir Isaac Newton, Florian Cajori (1946). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World”, p.636, Univ of California Press

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• The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Venice, Essentials

  Mary McCarthy (1956). "Venecia observada"

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• Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

  Ameen Rihani

  Errors, Intellectual, Doctrine

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• For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

  David Hume

  Book, Men, Wickedness

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume:”, p.239, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Desire, Directors, Artistic

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• El tiempo es un absurdo. Una abstracción. Lo único que importa es este momento.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Matter, Moments, Memento Mori

  "Memento Mori". Libro de Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. 2000.

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• Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

  Federico Lenz

  Reduction, Introduction, Concepts

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• Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heart, Ideas, Brain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). "Miscelánea"

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• ¿Cuál es el beneficio de ayunar en nuestro cuerpo mientras llenamos nuestras almas de innumerables males? El que no juega a los dados, sino que pasa su ocio de otra manera, ¿qué tonterías no dice? ¿Qué absurdos no escucha? El ocio sin temor de Dios es, para quien no sabe emplear el tiempo, el maestro de la maldad.

  San Basilio

  Teacher, Play, Evil

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.133, CUA Press

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• A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

  Maria Mitchell

  Circles, Numbers, Spheres

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• All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Aquariums, Other Cultures, Others Opinions

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• All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, Different, World

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• I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Atheist, Worry, Chance

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• As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.

  Tucídides

  Men, Thinking, Democracy

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

  George Henry Lewes

  Historical, Doctrine, Spirit

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.9, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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