Irony Quote by Bertrand Russell

“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it,…

— H.L. Mencken

“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given…

— Richard Mitchell

Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights: the right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities, provided only that he does not try to…

— H. L. Mencken

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius…

— William Shenstone

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

— Baron d'Holbach

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious…

— Immanuel Kant

“Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.”

— Thomas Hardy

“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem

“The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to laugh at…

— The Marquis de Sade

“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to…

— Baruch Spinoza

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of…

— Franklin P. Adams