Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

American writer

Lived from: 1902 - 1983

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 25 july 1902 Died: 21 may 1983

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  • Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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  • 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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  • Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.
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  • Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
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  • How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
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  • However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
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  • In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
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  • It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
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  • It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
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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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  • It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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  • It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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  • It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
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  • 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.
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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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  • It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations - past and present - are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.
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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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  • It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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  • It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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  • It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
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