Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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 search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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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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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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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