The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFERCommunists are frustrated capitalists.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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