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The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury

Smile at a friend, at a stranger, at an enemy, at life's absurdities and the universe will smile back at you. — Carol Vorvain

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. — Bertrand Russell

Economic absurdities are produced only when power is at stake. — Ernst Junger

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello

What an air of probability sometimes runs through a dream! And at others, what a heap of absurdities it is! — Jane Austen

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

To paraphrase Voltaire: if they can make you believe in their absurdities, they can make you commit their atrocities. — Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. — Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. — Rivka Galchen

From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis ... — Junot Diaz

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life. — David Lynch

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities. — Voltaire

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past. — Vincent Van Gogh

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth. — T. Colin Campbell

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world. — Mac Barnett

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences. — Robert Burton

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India. — Upamanyu Chatterjee

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. — Lewis Mumford

When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence. — David Hume

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities. — Stieg Larsson

When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd. — Raheel Farooq

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. — Voltaire

All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. — Thomas Paine

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. — Voltaire

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies. — Thomas Sowell

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Walter Savage Landor

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities. — Voltaire

Seymour, we do not dignify absurdities with coverage. This is still America, god damnit! Who wants a cowboy actor in the White House? — Alan Moore

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor

I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind. — Charles Dickens

Only absurdities need to be defended. Truth speaks for itself. — Stefan Emunds

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities. — Sherwood Anderson

Everything changes, today's tears are tomorrow's absurdities, after all. — Joan D. Vinge

A blind acceptance of absurdities leads to the undertaking of atrocities. — Margo Kelly

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities. — P. J. O'Rourke

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths. — George Richard Marek

Absurdities die of self-strangulation. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people. — Dave Hunt

People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities. — Voltaire

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. — John Chrysostom

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

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. — Charles Caleb Colton

If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One — Bertrand Russell

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities. — Charles Fourier

And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love. — Marcel Proust

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau

Absurdity of absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky