To change everything, simply change your attitude.
ERIC HOFFERA 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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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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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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