“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity.”
“I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.”