The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
ERIC HOFFERWhere freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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