"I believe that no discovery of fact,..." - Quote by H L Mencken
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
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“The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.”
“All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.”
“No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.”
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“Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.”
“The truth is the river flows into the canyonOf Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.”
“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”
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“You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a # fact .”
“A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.”
“Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.”