We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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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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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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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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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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