The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
ERIC HOFFERThe greatest weariness comes from work not done.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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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 central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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