"The Public ... demands certainties ... But there……" — H. L. Mencken
"The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties"
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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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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin…
— Salman Rushdie
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
— Charles William Eliot
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I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to…
— Bridget Riley
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your…
— Unknown Author
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
— James Dobson
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted…
— Fernando Pessoa
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When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom,…
— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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