Sp > Sp's Quotes

“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”
― André Gide

“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops”
― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
― Andre Gide

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― Andre Gide

“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”
― H. L. Mencken

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
― Andre Gide

“The color of truth is grey.”
― Andre Gide

“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”
― Andre Gide

“Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second series

“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”
― H.L. Mencken

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”
― H. L. Mencken