Famous quotes containing the words absurdity and/or history:
“Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia’s fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)