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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness

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