We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
SYDNEY J. HARRISNever let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
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