Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFERDeath has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFERNature 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 HOFFERYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
ERIC HOFFERMass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
ERIC HOFFERPassionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
ERIC HOFFERWe 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.
ERIC HOFFERLearners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
ERIC HOFFEROur 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 HOFFERThe trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
ERIC HOFFERWhat monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
ERIC HOFFERThere is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
ERIC HOFFERI have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
ERIC HOFFERYou can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
ERIC HOFFERSelf-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
ERIC HOFFER