One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
ERIC HOFFERI hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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 hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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 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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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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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I 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.
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