It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
From Eric Hoffer
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
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