Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERChildren are the keys of paradise.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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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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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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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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