Zitate von Henry Louis Mencken
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Die Fähigkeit der menschlichen Wesen, sich gegenseitig zu langweilen, scheint erheblich größer zu sein, als die anderer Tiere.
Informationen über Henry Louis Mencken
Schriftsteller, Journalist, Kritiker (USA, 1880 - 1956).
Henry Louis Mencken · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Henry Louis Mencken wäre heute 143 Jahre, 6 Monate, 17 Tage oder 52.428 Tage alt.
Geboren am 12.09.1880 in Baltimore
Gestorben am 29.01.1956 in Baltimore
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Weitere 170 Zitate von Henry Louis Mencken
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Historian - an unsuccessful novelist.
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
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Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.
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If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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In human history, a moral victory is always a disaster for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
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It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their willingness to doubt.
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Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
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Most philosophical treatises show the human cerebrum loaded far beyond its Plimsoll mark.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
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No one . . . has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
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No young man is educated if he comes out of college with the cheap and false values of the common man.