Every
absurdity has a champion to defend it
View quotes by Oliver GoldsmithAlmost all
absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
View quotes by Samuel JohnsonAn ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an
absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
View quotes by Joseph AddisonThe deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of
absurdity -the more energetically meaning is sought.
View quotes by Vaclav HavelThat which seems the height of
absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
View quotes by Adlai StevensonIn crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there: I might possibly answer, that for any thing I know to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the
absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch, as well as for the stone? why is it not as admissable in the second case as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, viz., that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose . . . This mechanism being observed . . . the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place of other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
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