Synonyms for absurdities
ab·sur·di·ties

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1. List of paraphrases for "absurdities":

   inconsistencies, aberrations, incongruities

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1. Voltaire:

   Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

2. Bertrand Russell:

   This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

3. Hazlitt:

   Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?

4. Alexander Herzen:

   This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed):

   Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.