Conceited Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conceited Deny Effort Obvious Reality Religion
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has no reality check. And it is therefore uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and self-correction. It is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality… and extreme,… — Greta Christina Copy Share
Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them. — Jacob Neusner Copy Share Image
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is… — PZ Myers 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
Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my opinion, they… — Jamie Eason Copy Share Image
I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
My name is what hoes tend to mention, keep talking bitches, I love the attention. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The emptiest people on this planet are usually the ones full of themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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