Clubs Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clubs Intellectual Knows Modern Modern world Philosophical Philosophy World
Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game. — Josei Toda Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can see everybody's… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through… — Amanda McBroom Copy Share Image
The clubs, that's easy to cut out, because I know when the season ends I can look forward to going out. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
Raves when it was safe to be free & wave your hands in the air, like you didn't even care! Not scared to break… — Progrezza Copy Share Image