It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual’s identification with a group.
~ Eric Hoffer
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They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.
~ Eric Hoffer
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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.
~ Eric Hoffer
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A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
~ Gertrude Stein
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We are always the same age inside.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~ Gertrude Stein
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