An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
ERIC HOFFERIt is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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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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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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