Julio Cortazar Quotes

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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

It is to believed because it is absurd.

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

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

The absurd is sin without God.

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

I do not believe in Belief.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

Everything is absurd.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.