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Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

American writer

Lived from: 1902 - 1983

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 25 july 1902 Died: 21 may 1983

  • Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
  • It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
  • The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
  • To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
  • Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
  • Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
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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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  • Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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  • The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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