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Absurdity

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Ambrose Bierce

(1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, The Devil's Dictionary)

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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.

Lord Byron

(1788-1824, British poet)

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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Albert Camus

(1913-1960, French existential writer)

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

(1874-1936, British author)

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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Vaclav Havel

(1936-, Czech playwright, president)

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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Thomas Hobbes

(1588-1679, British philosopher)

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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Archibald MacLeish

(1892-1982, American writer)

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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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844-1900, German philosopher)

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844-1900, German philosopher)

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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

(1858-1950, American author, social critic)

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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Arthur Schopenhauer

(1788-1860, German philosopher)

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