Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
ERIC HOFFERA passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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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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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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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