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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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  • 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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  • Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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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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  • It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
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