It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Eric Hoffer
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  1. Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan

  2. I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. - Louise Erdrich

  4. People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. - Johnny Depp

  5. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus

More Quotes By Eric Hoffer
  1. Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

  2. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

  3. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  4. 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.

  5. We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

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