Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFERTo be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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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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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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