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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

» More quotes from: Arthur Schopenhauer about: Absurdity

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.

» More quotes from: Gilbert Keith Chesterton about: Absurdity

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

» More quotes from: Carl Gustav Jung about: Addiction

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

» More quotes from: Abraham Lincoln about: Ambiguity

Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.

» More quotes from: Benjamin Franklin about: Ambiguity

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

» More quotes from: Ambrose Bierce about: Ambition

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

» More quotes from: Charles Caleb Colton about: Ambition

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

» More quotes from: Albert Camus about: Absurdity

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

» More quotes from: Friedrich Nietzsche about: Absurdity

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.

» More quotes from: Lord Byron about: Absurdity

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

» More quotes from: Jean Cocteau about: Addiction

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

» More quotes from: Abraham Lincoln about: Ambiguity

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

» More quotes from: Abraham Lincoln about: Ambition

Where ambition ends happiness begins.

» More quotes from: Anonymous about: Ambition

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

» More quores from: Ambrose Bierce about: Absurdity

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

» More quores from: Friedrich Nietzsche about: Absurdity

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

» More quores from: Thomas Hardy about: Absurdity

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

» More quores from: Samuel Johnson about: Addiction

That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

» More quores from: Albert Camus about: Ambiguity

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

» More quores from: Alexander Pope about: Ambition

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

» More quores from: Benjamin Franklin about: Ambition

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