The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFERPower corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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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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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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 future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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