To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
ERIC HOFFERLanguage 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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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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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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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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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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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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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