 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1927 - 338 Seiten
...men, most of them pathological. They are hated for telling it while they live, and when they die they are swiftly forgotten. What remains to the world,...series of long-tested and solidly agreeable lies. It is out of such lies that most of the so-called knowledge of humanity flows. What begins as poetry... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1927 - 326 Seiten
...men, most of them pathological. They are hated for telling it while they live, and when they die they are swiftly forgotten. What remains to the world,...series of long-tested and solidly agreeable lies. It is out of such lies that most of the so-called knowledge of humanity flows. What begins as poetry... | |
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This, of course, is not true—which is the chief reason why it is pleasant. No normal human being wants to hear the truth. It is the passion of a small and aberrant minority of men, most of them pathological. They are hated for telling it while they... 