We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERThe greatest weariness comes from work not done.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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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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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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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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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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