It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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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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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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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.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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