Absurdity Quotes - Page 7

• He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

  Baruch Spinoza

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Soul, Generations, Firsts

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• This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Reality, Hands, Understanding

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• Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!

  Wynton Marsalis

  Ignorance, Greatness, Jazz

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• I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to ask questions in ways that other forms can't, or in ways we can't using solely traditional means.

  Laurie Foos

  Mean, Thinking, Important

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• To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

  Mary Astell

  Vices, Add, Unreasonable

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

  Alexander Herzen

  Struggle, Play, Roles

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• Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

  Greg Behrendt

  Jobs, Comedian, Looks

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• I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

  Jason Bateman

  Reality, Needs, Comedy

  "Career Watch: Jason Bateman Gets Down with his ‘Bad’ Self" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2014.

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• Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.

  Abelardo Morell

  Photography, Crazy, Voice

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• I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things to the point of almost absurdity. I don't want to celebrate absurdity, but I do mean to challenge a lot of premises.

  Douglas Huebler

  Mean, Challenges, Twists

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• But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.

  Roger Cotes

  Philosophy, Fall, Science

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• I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.

  Chester Himes

  Writing, Differences, Stories

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• When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Girl, Football, Pain

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• For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Men, Practice

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• I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Home, India, Feels

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• What we're going for, in those humorous moments, is the absurdity of it all. The craziness of the night manager offering them an umbrella in the height of what is a horrible disaster was like, "What?!" That's Andy Greenfield, and he nailed the audition. He's the sweetest guy in the world, as is often the case with those guys, but on camera, he's so creepy that a lot of us kept saying, "You know, Andy, don't look at us like that anymore, okay? You're scaring us."

  Remi Aubuchon

  Humorous, Night, Offering

  Source: collider.com

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• Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Arriving, Reason

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1905). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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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.

  Vaclav Havel

  Meaningful, Strong, Light

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• Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Matter, Merit, Existence

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.14, Bertrand Russell

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• Interestingly enough, for me, a character like Captain Jack, you feel like you could just continue. The possibilities are endless and limitless. There is any possibility of madness and absurdity that could commence, so you feel that, with this character, you're never really done.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Captains, Done

  "Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Rob Marshall and Jerry Bruckheimer Interview PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 17, 2011.

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• To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

  Alexander Pope

  Suffering, Fool, Pardon

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228

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• For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

  Robin Williams

  Hypocrisy, Sides, Comedy

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• Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.

  Wendy Farley

  Optimistic, Wings, Joy

  Wendy Farley (2005). “The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth”, p.16, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.

  John Locke

  Men, Should Have, People

  John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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