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.
ERIC HOFFERUnlike 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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 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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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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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