I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
ERIC HOFFERPower corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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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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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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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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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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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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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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