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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
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
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
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.
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Atheist Care God Religious
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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Philosophy Yourself
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
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
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

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