Absurd Quotes

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

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