For monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a raccoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
—Terence McKenna
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
—Allan Goldfein
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
—George Santayana
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
—Bertrand Russell
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
—Georges Duhamel
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
—Voltaire
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
—Ambrose Bierce