Absurd Quotes

There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.

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.

It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one’s lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.