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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American writer, businessman, philosopher
An American Bible [ed. Alice Hubbard] (1918)
Added on 13-Nov-15 | Last updated 13-Nov-15
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Topics: betrayal, fallen, fallibility, feet of clay, hatred, hero, idol, leader, paragon, turn
More quotes by Hubbard, Elbert For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism, and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
“Knowledge and Understanding,”
Vedanta and the West (May-Jun 1956)
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Revision of
a 1955 lecture given at the Vedanta Society of Southern California; this phrase, however, does not occur in it (the surrounding text is found around the 10:00 mark). Reprinted in
Adonis and the Alphabet, and Other Essays (in the US
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Other Essays) (1956).
Added on 5-Nov-14 | Last updated 25-Jan-22
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Topics: cause, dogma, dogmatism, fanatic, human condition, human nature, humanity, idol, idolatry, malice, misery, problems, proselytization, stupidity, woes, zealotry
More quotes by Huxley, Aldous My political view is democracy. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
“What I Believe,”
Forum and Century (Oct 1930)
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Variant: "My political ideal is that of democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized." "The World As I See It
[Mein Weltbild]" [tr.
Harris (1934)].
Added on 7-May-13 | Last updated 20-Feb-21
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Topics: cult of personality, democracy, idol, idolization, individuality, respect
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