We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERTake away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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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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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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