Quotes by Mencken, H. L.

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true >>

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more >>

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search >>

Quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. >>

For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache pa >>

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time bee >>

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

Mencken, H. L.