Eric Hoffer Quotes

• Unpredictability, too can become monotonous.

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• We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

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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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• How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

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• Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

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• 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.

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• There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

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• Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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  It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.

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  Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength.

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• The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.

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• Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

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• Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more Our Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.

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• The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

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• It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

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• 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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• One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

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• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

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• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

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Eric Hoffer (125)

Birth:	25th July, 1902
Death:	21st May, 1983
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Philosopher

About

Eric Hoffer was born in The Bronx, New York city, New York, USA. He was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. He wrote several books include: The True Believer, The Ordeal of Change, The Temper of Our Time, Nature and The City, and Between the Devil and the Dragon.

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