Famous quotes containing the words absurdity and/or history:
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.”
—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)