Absurd Quotes - Page 5

• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

  Annie Besant

  God, Self, Religion

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Origins of Theosophy (Routledge Revivals): Annie Besant - The Atheist Years”, p.282, Routledge

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• We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

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• One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

  Patrik Baboumian

  Sympathy, Compassion, Bodybuilding

  "Vegan strongman shoulders 550 kg — a record, perhaps — at vegetarian food fest" by Jessica Mcdiarmid, www.thestar.com. September 8, 2013.

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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 Nietzsche

  Men, Loathing, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.65, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

  Billie Jean King

  Leadership, Sports, Athlete

  Billie Jean King, Frank Deford (1982). “Billie Jean”, Viking Pr

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• There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

  William James

  Science, Belief, Enough

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• The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

  Albert Camus

  Truth, Essentials, Firsts

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Stupid, Journey

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• The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

  Clarence Darrow

  Ideas, Alive, Immortal Life

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• The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

  Paul Valery

  May

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• The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

  Tom Courtenay

  Stars, Long, Interesting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

  Anthony Hope

  Yield, Temptation, Wells

  'The Dolly Dialogues' (1894) no. 14

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• For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

  Josh McDowell

  World, Philosopher, Good Christian

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• Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Believe, Promise

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1823). “Queen Mab: a philosophical poem : with notes”, p.110

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• Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Philosophical, Environment

  "Theological-Political Treatise " by Baruch Spinoza, (p. 92), 1670.

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• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Wise, Stupid, Unique

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• That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Demise, Hell

  George Berkeley (1843). “Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.461

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• A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Moving, Sight, Ideas

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• Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Way, Nuclear

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• When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Looks, Way, Fence

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sex, Class, People

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

  Jenna Elfman

  Drama, Believe, May

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Earth, Absurdity

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.730, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

  Jeff Baena

  Lines, Stuff, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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