Quotes About Absurdity

What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

He went after it first, using the reductio ad absurdum. This form of argument rests on the truth that if the inevitable conclusions from a set of premises are absurd then it follows logically that at least one of the premises that produced them is absurd.

Les idéaux ont de curieuses qualités, entre autres celle de se transformer brusquement en absurdité quand on s'essaie de s'y conformer strictement.

The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.

Eh, Mijnheer, querenzie tomar la klopje inmensa de la cabeza vefrouvens in forma de ein skoboldash sundae?

Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face. One had to admit that their god had gone a little too far with his little joke.

They be crazier than we are.

I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.

Have you ever tried nodding good morning to people while naked and holding a small arsenal of weapons?

I'm just crying because when you eat a five-year-old, the portions are so small.

all I can say of the matter, is—That he has either a pumkin for his head—or a pippin for his heart,—and whenever he is dissected 'twill be found so.

Si la instalación de la ventana de Momo en el pecho del hombre, de acuerdo con la corrección propuesta por aquel archicrítico, hubiera tenido lugar[134],——primero: sin duda alguna habría sucedido el siguiente desatino:—que hasta los más sabios y serios de todos nosotros habríamos tenido que pagar, en una u otra moneda, impuestos de ventana[135] todos y cada uno de los días de nuestra vida.

Neither one of them has toilet paper stuck to her boots. Where is the justice?

Asininity was puddling all around me in quantities too vast to soak up. - It Looked Different on the Model

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Well, there's nothing hereafter. We are even madder than the fools who kill themselves for a woman. When the earth splits to pieces in space like a dry walnut, our works won't add one atom to its dust.

It occurred to me that soon I would need a scroll of butcher paper and a felt-tip pen to record the list of completely senseless things comprising my life. I would tape the scroll to the wall and conduct a focus group of one.

I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the govenment whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

What [Adam] Smith took from [David] Hume's demonstration of the limits of reason, the absurdity of superstition, and the primacy of the passions was not a lesson of Buddhist-Stoical indifference but something more like a sense of Epicurean intensity—if we are living in the material world, then let us make it our material.

My partner and I are going to be run over by a rabbit driving a Citroën" just isn't the sort of thing that occurs to most people, no matter what kind of life they've led.