Eric Hoffer Quotes

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self esteem ...

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Naivete in grownups is often charming but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something that they are showing the way when they are running away that they see the light when they feel the heat that they are chosen when they are shunned.

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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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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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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 futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are.... Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware ... still clinging to things that no longer exist.

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Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

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A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

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Youth itself is a talent a perishable talent.

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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

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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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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

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