Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
ERIC HOFFERThere 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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 ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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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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