To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
ERIC HOFFERThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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A 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.
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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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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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For 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.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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