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To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
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New York City
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The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields.With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.
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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
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Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.
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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
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We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
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It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.
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Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.
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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.
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