It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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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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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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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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