We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERFair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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