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“From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human…

— Michel Foucault

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

— Immanuel Kant

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

— Walter Savage Landor

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

— William Batchelder Greene

“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by…

— Michael Bakunin

In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity…

— Tom Robbins

“In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to make something,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The world is absurd. Ugly absurd. To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity. We…

— Tzvi Freeman

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief…

— Chris Hedges