Quotes About Absurd

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

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

Sticking a straw up your butt won't get rid of the constipation.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves

To the average intellect, nothing is so alluring as a paradox. The reason is simple: in accepting a paradox, the average intellect feels that it has risen above the average. Any fool can believe what is possible and probable, but it demands no ordinary gifts, whether mental or spiritual, to believe what is absurd.

Acts of parliament that are impossible to be performed are of no validity; and if there arise out of them collaterally any absurd consequences, manifestly contradictory to common reason, they are, with regard to those collateral consequences, void.

The way earlier societies seem obviously absurd and cruel gives a kind of horror at the forces that must be at work in our own, but suggests that any society must have dramatically satisfying and dangerous conventions; and people can put up with almost any political conditions, either because they are lazy or because they are ambitious.

How's it going, man." "They found a carrot in my brain." "Sounds like a weird trip.

To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

elle était terriblement jalouse. Elle savait que c'était absurde, mais elle n'arrivait pas à se maîtriser, à avoir un comportement rationnel.

When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested they are, they only become the more ridiculous and the more odious.

The fucking deer just took the fucking elevator.