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.
ERIC HOFFERThe beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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