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Funny Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Facts are counterrevolutionary.
- When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
- However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
- We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards…
- The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
- We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
- We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.
- What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.
- 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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