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Thomas Hobbes
: The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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Thomas Hobbes :
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The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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Archibald Macleish :
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
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Allan Goldfein :
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Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
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Ambrose Bierce :
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Albert Camus :
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Agnes Repplier :
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Ambrose Bierce :
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Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Carl Jung :
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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
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Fernando Pessoa :
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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Lord Byron :
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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.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as farre-forth, as for Peace, and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
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Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
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