When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
ERIC HOFFERWe lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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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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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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