Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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