Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFERFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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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 future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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