It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
ERIC HOFFERJesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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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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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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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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