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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
Eric Hoffer -
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Eric Hoffer
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer -
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer -
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Eric Hoffer -
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer -
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
Eric Hoffer -
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
Eric Hoffer
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer -
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
Eric Hoffer -
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
Eric Hoffer -
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer -
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer -
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Eric Hoffer
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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 -
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Eric Hoffer -
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer -
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Eric Hoffer -
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer -
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
Eric Hoffer
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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Eric Hoffer -
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer -
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Eric Hoffer -
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Eric Hoffer