The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFERThe opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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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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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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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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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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