#absurdity

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

— Agnes Repplier

#cannot #civilization #much #palpable #people

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#absurdly #break #infinite #living #only

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#anything #christianity #ever #far #heard

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

— Jean Calvin

#calvin #faith #humility #ignorance #knowledge

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#another #becomes #generation #height #often

A brick represents all the evil in the world. We should start a War on Bricks. And why not? It’s more tangible, yet just as nonsensical, as the War on Terror.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #evil #tangible #war

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark. ↗

— Jacques Rigaut

#humor #humor

At my last birthday party I had fun and really let myself go. Literally. I opened the cages where I keep my clones and I let myself go, all 333 versions of myself. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#absurdity #birthday #clones #change

The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#courage #empathy #men #sensitivity #women

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide. ↗

— Albert Camus

#suicide #death