(98 quotes found)
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
Bertrand Russell
“When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”
William Osler
“The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity”
John Adams
“In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity”
Chamfort
“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
“The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.”
Willem de Kooning
“The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.”
David Lynch
“The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!”
David Kirk
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