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Eric Hoffer Quotes
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
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 (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The self despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole - the church, party, nation - and not to his fellow true believer (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is by it's promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Help your sister’s boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind (Eric Hoffer Quotes)