You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
ERIC HOFFERNothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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