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The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration.
Strictly Personal (1953)
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Strictly Personal (1953)
A person who is going to commit an inhuman act invariably excuses himself to himself by saying, "I'm only human, after all."
Strictly Personal (1953)
When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
Strictly Personal (1953)
All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.
Strictly Personal (1953)
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
Strictly Personal (1953)
The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.
Strictly Personal (1953)