The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFERAbsolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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