It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
ERIC HOFFERSelf-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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