We 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.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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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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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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 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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