"All great religions, in order to escape absurdity,……" — H. L. Mencken

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• An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of… — Joseph Addison
• This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of… — Annie Besant
• Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. — Ambrose Bierce
• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
• My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
• At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus
• Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe… — Albert Camus
• It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and… — Christopher Hitchens
• The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by… — Norman Angell
• When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and… — Sigmund Freud
• Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,… — Thomas Jefferson

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