The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFERWe are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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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 capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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