It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
ERIC HOFFERWe see through others only when we see through ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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