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"“I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.”
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"In politics, absurdity is not a handicap." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." »Samuel Johnson
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"The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only." »Thomas Hobbes
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"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." »Agnes Repplier
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"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity." »Marcel Proust
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"absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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"absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." »Ambrose Bierce
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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
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"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
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"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"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
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"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
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"Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it, which is always a source of pleasure to sensible people." »Wieland
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"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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"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..." »Vaclav Havel
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"Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk." »Oswald Mosley
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"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next." »John Stuart Mill
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"Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic." »Aldous Huxley
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"Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works." »Robert Hewison
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