Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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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.
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Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.