403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den September 12th 1880 och dog den 29 January 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it |
| Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. |
| Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince |
| Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God |
| Psychology: The theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow, and is certainly a damned fool |
| Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy |
| Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth |
| Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it |
| Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas |
| Say what you want about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them |
| School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency. |
| School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency. |
| School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. |
| School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers |
| Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. |
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