To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
ERIC HOFFERWe run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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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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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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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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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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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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