Quotes About Absurdity

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.

Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.

If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity.

You can't do that, it makes too much sense.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

Pigs might fly, but they're unlikely birds.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Een oude theologische strijdmethode: een stelling poneren, zo belachelijk en dom, dat oppositie ertegen automatisch even belachelijk en dom wordt.

Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world...

Nor can science overcome the absurdity of life caused by death. Science cannot prolong life forever. It is noteworthy that Eiseley never returns to the question of death, which was awakened in him as a child, to show how science answers this problem. For it cannot. The religion of science has no answer to man's deepest questions.