Eric Hoffer Quotes

• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

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• Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

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• It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

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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 sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

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  Tags in Desire, Opportunities, Talents

• Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

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• People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

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• Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

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• Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

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• A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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• A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

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• A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

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  Tags in Spring, System

• A man by himself is in bad company.

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• Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

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• Facts are counterrevolutionary.

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• Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

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• Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

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  Tags in Creativity

• Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

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  Tags in Effective

• Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

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  Topics in Mother

• Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

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Eric Hoffer (125)

Birth:	25th July, 1902
Death:	21st May, 1983
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Philosopher

About

Eric Hoffer was born in The Bronx, New York city, New York, USA. He was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. He wrote several books include: The True Believer, The Ordeal of Change, The Temper of Our Time, Nature and The City, and Between the Devil and the Dragon.

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