Eric Hoffer Quotes
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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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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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
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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.
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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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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.