"It is not materialism that is the chief……" — H. L. Mencken
"It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously."
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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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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that…
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the…
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the…
— William Blake
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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