The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERAnger is a prelude to courage.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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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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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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