Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
ERIC HOFFERA great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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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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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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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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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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