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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
— Ivan Turgenev
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Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence.…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what…
— H. L. Mencken
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
— Ivan Turgenev
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you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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