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

—Georges Duhamel

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More quotations tagged with “absurdity”

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

—Ambrose Bierce

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

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

—Bertrand Russell

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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

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Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

—Allan Goldfein

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