In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
Absurd Quotes
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. But as it nevertheless intends all the time to be something dignified, at the next moment it corrects and checks and tries to cover up the absurd thing it was; […]
Credo quia absurdum est (I believe because it is absurd). And the Son of God died, which is immediately credible because it is absurd. And buried he rose again, which is certain because it is impossible.
Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.
What is utterly absurd happens in the world.
Only the exceptionally equanimous person can allow himself to be absurd.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
