To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFERThe sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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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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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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