Eric Hoffer Quotes
Eric Hoffer Quotes
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
2809Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
3311 There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
3248 The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
1122 The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
4831 We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.
4991 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.
2616 If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.
4851 Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.
2854 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.
1356 Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
4252 Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
1142 In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
2892 It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
3842 Anger is the prelude to courage.
1252 In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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