Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
ERIC HOFFERTo become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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