We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERTo be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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