One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
ERIC HOFFER
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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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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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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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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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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