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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  • The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
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  • The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
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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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  • The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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  • The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
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  • The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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  • The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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  • The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
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  • 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.
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  • The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
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  • There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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  • There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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  • There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
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  • There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
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  • There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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  • There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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  • There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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  • Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
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  • Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.
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  • Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
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