"A metaphysician is one who, when you..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”

“I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.”

“Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.”

“Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.”

“Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.”

“The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.”

“When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.”

“Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.”

“There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.”