Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

That's an old saying I just made up.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

There is a certain method in his madness.

There is nothing so strange and unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another

Common sense is often common nonsense. There is much that we have learned from science that is counter-intuitive.

I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.

Proper stupidity is fascinating.

Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.

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.

If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.

He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.

I always spoke my mind. I didn't go with the flow.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.