Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFERA 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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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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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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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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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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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