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.
ERIC HOFFERTo know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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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 opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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