Constructs Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constructs Firsts Fit Happiness Philosophy Schemes Trying World
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Best philosophy in life is to keep the mind happy... I don't know if success gives happiness, but I know that a happy mind… — Ritu Ghatourey 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
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become:… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things. — Julie Christie Copy Share Image