Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
ERIC HOFFERFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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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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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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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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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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