For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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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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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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.
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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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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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