“The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.”

— H.L. Mencken

1940s–present, Introduction to Nietzsche's The Antichrist

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