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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  • 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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  • Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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  • Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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  • Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
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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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  • Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
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  • That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
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  • The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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  • The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
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  • The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
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  • The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
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  • The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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  • The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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  • The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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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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  • The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
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  • The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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  • The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
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  • The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
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  • The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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