We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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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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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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