The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFERRudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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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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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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