Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFERThe hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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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 creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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