Stieg Larsson Quotes

What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Facts are placed before reasonings and before ideals, even though the reasonings and the ideals be more beautiful, be seemingly more lofty, be seemingly better, be seemingly truer. The seemingly absurd and the seemingly impossible are sometimes true. The scientific disposition is to accept facts upon evidence, however absurd they may appear to our pre-conceptions.

Like the British Constitution, she (Britain) owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

There is no solution, for there is no problem.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.