Eric Hoffer Quotes

• Children are the keys of paradise.

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• penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Evil, Reports

• Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

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  Tags in Men, Doing, Things

• The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

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• Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

  Eric Hoffer

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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.

  Eric Hoffer

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• To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Person, Intolerance

• The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Antichrist, Idea, Mediocrity

• 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

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• The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Weakness

• The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Leader, Visionary, Idealist

• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  Eric Hoffer

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• The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Evil, Person

• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Weariness, Greatest

• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Human

• The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Individual, Existence

• To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

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• Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

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• There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

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• The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

  Eric Hoffer

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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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