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.
ERIC HOFFERTo be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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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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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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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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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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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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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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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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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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