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.
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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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 future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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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.
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