Tertullian Quotes

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

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

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Humor is reason gone mad.

No sense makes sense.

I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

in nonsense is strength

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

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

… like looking for an atheist in heaven