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.
ERIC HOFFERThe only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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