Quotes with absurdity

  • 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.
  • When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith.

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  • Marcel Proust The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Samuel Johnson Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • 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
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Albert Camus At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Alexander Herzen Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Salman Rushdie I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Napoleon In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche 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
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer 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
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • David Hume It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Gore Vidal 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
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Vaclav Havel 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
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Bernard Levin No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss 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 Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Agnes Repplier People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • John Stuart Mill That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Vaclav Havel The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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