"There is no record in history of a…" — H. L. Mencken
"There is no record in history of a happy philosopher."
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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 Happy Quotes
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
— Aaliyah
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
— Pietro Aretino
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
— Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
— Aristotle
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It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until…
— Richard Bach
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as…
— Fred Armisen
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except…
— David Attenborough
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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