To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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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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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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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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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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