Joshua Ferris Quotes

No sense makes sense.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

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

Nothing makes logical sense in this industry.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Only fools are positive.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Most of the time, when someone tells you something, and it makes sense, it just makes sense. And that's that. But sometimes it really doesn't make sense.

Sometimes the logic of football has no value at all.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Everything is absurd.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

I believe in nothing.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.