Absurd

New connections form, some synapses are weakened while others reconfigure. The diorama changes, becomes funnier and more absurd.

How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?

presuppose that human beings pursue any rational end of their own in their endeavors, is that he attempt to discover an end of nature behind this absurd course of human activity, an end on the basis of which a history could be given of beings that proceed without a plan of their own but nevertheless according to a definite plan of nature. Let us now see whether we can discover a guiding

Immanuel Kant 1784 - Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective

So, if part of cosmopolitanism is valuing localities, it would be absurd to value all the other localities and exclude your own.

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Cosmopolitanism

It's just a shaggy dog story, which is just a big setup to an absurd punchline.

RAMBLEMAN: Into The Ramblezone 🌀 [990]

"...in this affair." But our client seemed by no means eager to start. "It's perfectly absurd, Mr. Holmes," he said. "What can this man possibly know of what has occurred? It is waste of time and money." "He would not have telegraphed you if he did not know something. Wire at once that you are coming." "I don't think I should go." Holmes assumed his sternest aspect. "It would make the worst..."

54 The Retired Colourman from The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) Audiobook

"...possible impression, both on the police and upon myself, Mr. Amberley, if, when so obvious a clue arose, you should refuse to follow it up. We should feel that you were not really in earnest in this investigation." Our client seemed horrified at the suggestion. "Why, of course I shall go if you look at it in that way," said he. "On the face of it, it seems absurd to suppose that..."

54 The Retired Colourman from The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) Audiobook

It's delightfully absurd.

Learn English with Julia Roberts — NOTTING HILL

But after the show, there's a meet and greet for surprise people who did not know that they were going to get a meet and greet, because they were picked for the Tea Party Room, which means that they were, like, going crazy, dancing the whole time, dressed in some absurd, crazy costume from one of my music videos or just knew every single word and were just screaming the whole time.

ENGLISH SPEECH | TAYLOR SWIFT: YouTube Presents Interview (English Subtitles)

In what way afflicted? What absurd names did your parents assign the other members of your family? Take her right hand in yours. I, Adam Richard Boys, Duke of Kildare, Marquess of Folston, Earl of Folston, Viscount and Heir Spearin, Baron Folston, Baron Whitley, take thee to be my wedded wife,

Adam and Persephone | Love Story (Seeking Persephone)

He's so funny and everyone says he's so funny, but he's so funny and it's so absurd.

My Favourite 25 Books of 2025

He's describing and he describes all of these absurd cities that he's that he's visited and um they are strange.

My Favourite 25 Books of 2025

If you think about the idea of intuition in terms of questions like, "Do I have a headache?", I believe you will realize that I'm the only one who knows that and that it's not absurd or meaningless for me to say that I have a headache. All right, so I'm just trying to establish the idea of intuition as not being intrinsically preposterous. All right, now Husserl was a student of Brentano, which is an interesting fact because Freud was also one of Brentano's students. And from Brentano, apparently a very influential teacher, he borrowed—as Freud did—the idea of intentionality.

Husserl: Phenomenology and the Life World

You know, that's absurd of you. You really have to remove that arm? That's crazy. I'm not removing my arm; you're definitely putting in another arm to this jacket. In other words, do we change our body to suit our jacket, or do we change our jacket to suit our body? Now, let me suggest that our body is the set of our experiences and that the jacket is the philosophical theory with which we account for them. You really want to cut off your experience of cause and effect, of good and evil, of lust and rage and hatred and beauty, because you can't talk about them?

Husserl: Phenomenology and the Life World

It got more and more absurd.

How Frida Kahlo Became Everything She Hated

This is where Malbolge really comes into its own. The idea of using Hawaiian-themed visuals and such an absurd... villain?... monster?

The Tropical Horror of MALBOLGE TRENCH