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.
ERIC HOFFERPassionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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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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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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