Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- VoltaireThe philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
- William OslerHumor is our way of defending ourselves from life`s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
- Adam JacobsonThis is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
- Bertrand RussellFinish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...
- Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities
- David HumeCrude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
- Eric Hoffer