We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERNever have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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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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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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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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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 capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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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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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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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