Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
ERIC HOFFERLanguage 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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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