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Eric Hoffer quotes: It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
Eric Hoffer quotes: To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading. Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt. Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Rudeness is a weak persons imitation of strength. Rudeness is a weak persons imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer quotes: It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist. Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer quotes: We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
Eric Hoffer quotes: We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest. We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
Eric Hoffer quotes: No one has a right to happiness. No one has a right to happiness.
Eric Hoffer quotes: However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
Eric Hoffer quotes: What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
Eric Hoffer quotes: We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.
Eric Hoffer quotes: The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
Eric Hoffer quotes: It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric Hoffer quotes: We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer quotes: To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Eric Hoffer quotes: With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
Eric Hoffer quotes: The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer quotes: The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
Eric Hoffer quotes: The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Children are the keys of paradise. Children are the keys of paradise.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs. Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
Eric Hoffer quotes: It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
Eric Hoffer quotes: It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer quotes: It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer quotes: In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
Eric Hoffer quotes: The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.
Eric Hoffer quotes: We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose. Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.
Eric Hoffer quotes: A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously. A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect. Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Eric Hoffer quotes: In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions. In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities. Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.
Eric Hoffer quotes: To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him
Eric Hoffer quotes: The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet. Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
Eric Hoffer quotes: We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Eric Hoffer quotes: A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific. A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Eric Hoffer quotes: We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
Eric Hoffer quotes: The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us. The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Facts are counterrevolutionary. Facts are counterrevolutionary.
Eric Hoffer quotes: There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer quotes: If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences. If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.
Eric Hoffer quotes: It is not at all simple to understand the simple. It is not at all simple to understand the simple.
Eric Hoffer quotes: There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous. Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know. Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity. Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease. Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Eric Hoffer quotes: What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.
Eric Hoffer quotes: A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
Eric Hoffer quotes: The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole
the church, party, nation
and not to his fellow true believer.
Eric Hoffer quotes: A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life. Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
Eric Hoffer quotes: We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.
Eric Hoffer quotes: It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting. It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.
Eric Hoffer quotes: The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor. The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer quotes: When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot. When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self. Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.
Eric Hoffer quotes: There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer quotes: When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer quotes: The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Eric Hoffer quotes: A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is. A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.
Eric Hoffer quotes: There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer quotes: America is still the best country for the common man white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else. America is still the best country for the common man
white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Eric Hoffer quotes: It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
Eric Hoffer quotes: When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.
Eric Hoffer quotes: A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer quotes: We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
Eric Hoffer quotes: What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure. What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
Eric Hoffer quotes: It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer quotes: People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
Eric Hoffer quotes: A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action. A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.
Eric Hoffer quotes: Successful action tends to become an end in itself. Successful action tends to become an end in itself.
Eric Hoffer quotes: You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone
Eric Hoffer quotes: How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

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