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Futile Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.…
- It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives.…
More Futile Quotes
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus
- I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White
- One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem.… — Enrico Fermi
- If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. — Caspar David Friedrich
- It is good that life never fulfils your dreams - it always goes on disposing, in a way. It gives you a… — Rajneesh
- When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be… — H. H. Asquith
- Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial… — Alexis de Tocqueville