Absurdity
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Absurdity
Absurdity
Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
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.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Camus, Albert
1913-1960 French Existential Writer
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.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
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.
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Havel, Vaclav
1936 Czech Playwright President
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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Hobbes, Thomas
1588-1679 British Philosopher
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.
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Macleish, Archibald
1892-1982 American Poet
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.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Repplier, Agnes
1858-1950 American Author Social Critic
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
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