One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
ERIC HOFFER
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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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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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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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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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