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«It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Materialism
| Keywords:
get into, hallucination, hallucinations, idealism, Pastor, pastors, visions
«Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, backward, crab, crabbed, crabs, crawling, In Search Of, operates, watched
«It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Ideas,
University
| Keywords:
currently, prevalent, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing
«A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
First love
| Keywords:
bunch, First Love, remembers, tenderness
«A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
delusion, patriotic, sense of humor
«Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
art critic, critic, exposing, flat, protecting, surfaces, The Critic
«A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.»
«Lincoln marked the half-way post on the road to the sewers (in presidents)»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Lincoln, marked, on the road, post, Presidents, sewers
«What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Fear,
Morality,
Punishment,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
described, partly, restrains, scruple, scruples, sense of humor
«Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.»
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