Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFERNature 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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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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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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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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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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