Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

—Voltaire

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

—Georges Duhamel

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

—Bertrand Russell

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