Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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A 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.
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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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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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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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