H.l. Mencken

Quotes

• “In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common h...”
• “The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the ...”
• “The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is...”
• “If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink you...”
• “If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an...”
• “No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that...”
• “A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds ...”
• “The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.”
• “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
• “Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.”
• “You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”
• “Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”