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.
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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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