Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
ERIC HOFFERI 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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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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