Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFERAdd a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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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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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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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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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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