Absurd Quote by Annie Besant

“It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e. disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which…

— Bertrand Russell

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

— Lawrence Durrell

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

— Noam Chomsky

“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

— Julio Cortazar

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

— Thomas Huxley

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.

— William Pepperell Montague

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.

— Pope Benedict XVI

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

— Socrates

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is…

— Albert Camus

Belief is the uncritical acceptance of something you can't prove.

— Hans Holzer

The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about

— Anonymous