Celibacy Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Celibacy Ideals Philosopher Philosophy Polygamy States
Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system, properly carried… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“A major goal of polygyny in divine marriage is to eliminate the potential exploitation of women and other negatives that can occur under a… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
By all means, get married: if you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Eventually, if desire withers, monogamy too easily slides downward into celibacy. When this happens, fidelity becomes a weakness rather than a virtue.” — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Estates are sometimes held by foolish forms, the breaking of a stick or the payment of a peppercorn. I was willing to hold the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you'll become happy, while if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you… — Socrates Copy Share Image
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, youll become happy; if you get a bad one, youll become a philosopher. — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
“(5.) The working of the Romish system of celibacy, voluntary poverty, and monastic vows, has produced such fruits as prove the principle on which… — Archibald Alexander Hodge Copy Share Image
“Christians throughout history have affirmed that lifelong celibacy is a spiritual gift and calling, not a path that should be forced upon someone.” — Matthew Vines 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
“This worldly life is very difficult. Mother-in-law comes, mother of the mother-in-law comes, sister of mother-in-law comes, aunt of mother-in-law comes. How many mother-in-laws… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) is where not even an iota of a wrong intent arises within.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about that in… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own… — Roger Lewis Copy Share Image
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