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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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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
— William James
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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass,…
— H. L. Mencken
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To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do…
— Jack Donovan
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The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the…
— Louis Thomas McFadden
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Make the man within your living ideal.
— Karl G. Maeser
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No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
— William Shakespeare
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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
— Thomas Browne
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
— Karl G. Maeser
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could…
— Unknown Author
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