| "It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be." »Archibald MacLeish |
| "There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire |
| "Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd." »Allan Goldfein |
| "It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them." »John Steinbeck |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing." »Elizabeth Goudge |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." »Christopher Darlington Morley |
| "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." »Utterly Russell |
| "Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check." »M. C. Escher |
| "I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world." »Georges Duhamel |
| "This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities." »Bertrand Russell |
| "This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world." »Albert Camus |
| "What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities." »Joseph Addison |
| "Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity." »Vartan Gregorian |
| "My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then." »George Gordon Byron |
| "I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense." »Edgar Watson Howe |
| "Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half." »Plato |
| "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell |
| "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty." »Ellen Glasgow |
| "You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough." »Aldous Huxley |
| "He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure." »Johann von Goethe |
| "The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful." »Anna Garlin Spencer |
| "It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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