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«Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
above all, clear-thinking, fairness, fundamentally, hold in, honesty, opposed, veneration
«Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
christ, Christianity, evangelical, founded
«I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
curse, damage, ethical, greatly, modest, overcome, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, services, speaking
«Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
constant, dilemmas, horned, horns, horn in, oscillation, sharp
«It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.»
«The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her»
«Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
belief, briefly, defined, illogical, improbable, occurrence, occurrences
«We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
children, extent, fellow, Get Smart, respect, sense, smart, smarted, smarting, smarts, theory, The Fellows, The sense, to that extent, to what extent, wife
«The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.»
«The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
complex, emotion, inexplicable, inferior, permanent, safety, unknown
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