Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
ERIC HOFFERSelf-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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