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

Absurdity

WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

4.0 · 22 votes · 193 reads

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

Absurdity

NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

4.7 · 60 votes · 130 reads

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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.

Absurdity

Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

4.6 · 57 votes

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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.

Absurdity

Arthur Schopenhauer

PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

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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.

Absurdity

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

4.8 · 44 votes

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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.

Absurdity

PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

3.0 · 21 votes

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

Absurdity

Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

4.6 · 30 votes · 130 reads

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

Absurdity

WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

4.1 · 38 votes

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