Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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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I 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.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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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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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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