Anger is a prelude to courage.
ERIC HOFFERThe trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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