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.
ERIC HOFFERI can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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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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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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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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