Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFERThe sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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