Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Read Summary
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. Read Summary
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Read Summary
'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so. Read Summary
All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand. Read Summary
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. Read Summary
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. Read Summary
What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. Read Summary
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. Read Summary
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? Read Summary
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. Read Summary
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. Read Summary
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. Read Summary
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. Read Summary
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. Read Summary
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. Read Summary
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Read Summary
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. Read Summary