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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

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
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man

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