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Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous  (Incongruous Quotes) Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence  (Incongruous Quotes) The beautiful must be incongruous  (Incongruous Quotes) I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in  (Incongruous Quotes) Money is speech. It’s incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It’s absurd.  (Incongruous Quotes) A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.  (Incongruous Quotes) By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation  (Incongruous Quotes) Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines  (Incongruous Quotes) It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony  (Incongruous Quotes) The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural  (Incongruous Quotes) He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind  (Incongruous Quotes) I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens  (Incongruous Quotes) It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners  (Incongruous Quotes) Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities,... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty  (Incongruous Quotes) I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether  (Incongruous Quotes) Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner  (Incongruous Quotes) Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness  (Incongruous Quotes) It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence aren’t incongruous at all, but rather perfect  (Incongruous Quotes) The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds  (Incongruous Quotes) ... the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation  (Incongruous Quotes) I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men  (Incongruous Quotes) It’s incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal  (Incongruous Quotes) In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli  (Incongruous Quotes) A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions  (Incongruous Quotes) A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief  (Incongruous Quotes) Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous  (Incongruous Quotes) What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?  (Incongruous Quotes) But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy  (Incongruous Quotes) A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. it dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. it recommends moderation  (Incongruous Quotes)