You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature
You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.
To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
It is absurd to look for perfection.
It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.
Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period.