Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
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Absurdity
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Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity."
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)"
Denis Diderot
Philosopher, Writer
"To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity."
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"The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen."
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"Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing."
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"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity."
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"And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others."
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"In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it."
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"The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society."
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"He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."
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"Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish."
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"Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity."
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"The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals."
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"We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity."
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"The absurd is sin without God."
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"I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning."
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"The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death."
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"The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity."
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