"If the average man is made in God's……" — H. L. Mencken
"If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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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…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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More Aristotle Quotes
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
— Mortimer Adler
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is…
— Joseph Parker
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Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
— Owen Wister
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
— Sissela Bok
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking.…
— Will Cuppy
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can…
— Florence Nightingale
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which…
— H. L. Mencken
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
— John Dryden
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