Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
ERIC HOFFERNever have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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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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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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