Quotes
Quotes about Absurdity
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Absurdity, n. a statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.] -- Speech
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. -- Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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.
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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.
