"The purpose of philosophers is to show people……" — Eric Hoffer
"The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses."
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Eric Hoffer
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site.
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
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In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to…
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A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too,…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost…
— Josh Billings
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look…
— Gisele Bundchen
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I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on…
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But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous.…
— Carol Burnett
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
— Octavia Butler
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's…
— Italo Calvino
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Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not…
— Kirk Cameron
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