| Quotes |
Topic |
| Age | The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. |
| All About Love | Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. |
| Appearance | The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. |
| Brotherhood | It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor. |
| Science | Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. |
| Death | How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. |
| Discontent | The greatest weariness comes from work not done. |
| Exaggeration | Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. |
| Fatigue | Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. |
| Finance and Economics | When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men. |
| Finance and Economics | Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. |
| Frustration | It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. |
| Hatred | Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. |
| History | The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle. |
| Ignorance | Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. |
| Kindness | Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer. |
| Leaders | The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. |
| Malice | It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. |
| Men and Women | There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. |
| Negativity | It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. |
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