Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFERFor many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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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.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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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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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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