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Thing Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
- The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
- When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people…
- The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises…
- However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
- Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
- There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on…
- Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.…
- Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a…
- There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
- The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.
- 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…
- Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we…
- The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when…
- The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born…
- The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The…
- The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a…
- To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves…
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