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.
ERIC HOFFERThe hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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