More quotes by H.L. Mencken

"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it."
"If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder."
"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable."
"The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians."
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."