The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFERPropaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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