Quote #40
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
More from H. L. Mencken
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is act…
- Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
- The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to exp…
- Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
- Nature abhors a moron.
- There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
- The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.