| "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." »Samuel Johnson |
| "People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." »Agnes Repplier |
| "The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only." »Thomas Hobbes |
| "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." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next." »John Stuart Mill |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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