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.
ERIC HOFFERNowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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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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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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A 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.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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