The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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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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