"Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone." — H. L. Mencken
"Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone."
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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 Discreditable Quotes
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one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,'…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class,…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably…
— G. H. Hardy
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The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the…
— Kenny Smith
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Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even…
— H. L. Mencken
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events,…
— H. L. Mencken
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I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of…
— Dylan Thomas
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