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H. L. Mencken has 641 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart…
— David Perkins
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Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
— Charles William Eliot
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It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those…
— Werner Heisenberg
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This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their…
— Meister Eckhart
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The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,…
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In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the…
— Wilhelm Reich
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It turns out that creativity isn’t some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few—it’s a natural part of human thinking…
— Tom Kelley
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In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,…
— Carl Sagan
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Human thinking envelope the world with mystery
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The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question.
— Melchor Lim
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