Anger is a prelude to courage.
ERIC HOFFERSelf-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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