You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.


Eric Hoffer

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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
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The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by d...
ERIC HOFFER
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
ERIC HOFFER
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were,...
ERIC HOFFER
Our great weariness comes from work not done.
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opi...
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There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
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It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the ...
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The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in th...
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that ...
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You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, ...
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And w...
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen...
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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has hap...
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor.
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However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we r...
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ...
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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