Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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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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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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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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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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