The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFER
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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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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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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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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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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