Anger is a prelude to courage.
ERIC HOFFERThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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