Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFERTake 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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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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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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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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