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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
Sep 10, 2025
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Everything is absurd.
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life. Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase.
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
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.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
It is absurd to look for perfection.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.
The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods.