Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one’s own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you-either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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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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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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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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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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