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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
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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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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