The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFERThe basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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