Absurdity Quotes - Page 2

People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.

Ljupka Cvetanova

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Julio Cortázar

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Julio Cortázar

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and in all eternity can never renounce—it is a self-contradiction. But it takes a paradoxical and humble courage to grasp the whole temporal realm now by virtue of the absurd, and this is the courage of faith.

Søren Kierkegaard

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)

Playing a fool is the best paid role.

Ljupka Cvetanova

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Albert Einstein

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

Shannon L. Alder

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Julio Cortázar

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Arthur Schopenhauer