"There is no reason why humanity cannot be……" — Eric Hoffer
"There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives."
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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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More Equally Quotes
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
— Aristotle
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
— John Banville
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is,…
— Jeff Bezos
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
— Cate Blanchett
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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake…
— Joseph Brodsky
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