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.
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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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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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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Our 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.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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