The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
ERIC HOFFEREvery successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Self-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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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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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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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