When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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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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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Unlike 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.
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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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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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