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22 Jul 2008 04:59 pm
Quote For The Day
By Patrick Appel
Despite the common delusion to the contrary the
philosophy of doubt is far more comforting than that of hope. The doubter
escapes the worst penalty of the man of faith and hope; he is never
disappointed, and hence never indignant. The inexplicable and irremediable
may interest him, but they do not enrage him, or, I, may add, fool him. This immunity is worth all the dubious assurances ever foisted upon man. It is pragmatically impregnable. Moreover, it makes for tolerance and
sympathy. The doubter does not hate his opponents; he sympathizes with
them. In the end he may even come to sympathize with God. The old idea of
fatherhood submerges in a new idea of brotherhood. God, too, is beset by
limitations, difficulties, broken hopes. Is it disconcerting to think of
Him thus? Well, is it any less disconcerting to think of Him as able to
ease and answer, and yet failing?"- H.L. Mencken. From "Damn, a Book of Calumny" (now out of
print, but available in "A Mencken Chrestomathy"; p.96)
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