The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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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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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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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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