The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFERAll leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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