The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.Eric Hoffer
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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A man by himself is in bad company.
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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
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