To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
ERIC HOFFEROne 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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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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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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