The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
ERIC HOFFER
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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