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The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
The essence of the show is that SpongeBob is an innocent in a world of jaded characters. The rest is absurd packaging.
There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.
Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me.
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.
It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.
Any claim that our fighting forces are not reaching their maximum potential because females are not included is absurd.
Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?
If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.
There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise.
I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.
People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.
Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
The intensity of the Premier League is incredible. The levels of fitness you have to reach just to survive in it is absurd.
For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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.
It does not take much technical knowledge to understand why the interlinking of rivers is an absurd idea and a ruinous project.
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.