#thing

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 something that is not there. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#emptiness #evil #greatest #hardest #hide

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#men #much #things #want #weary

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#difficulty #empty #forcing #head #hence

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#dregs #malcontents #nation #orderly #peaceful

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 lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#frustration #greater #lack #less #many

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#becoming #fear #has-been #keeps #people

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ↗