Eric Hoffer Quotes

• We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

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• To the old, the new is usually bad news.

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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 is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

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• The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

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  Tags in Misery, Child

• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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  Tags in Arithmetic, Master, Blessing

• There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people – we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

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• To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

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• We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

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• We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

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• We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

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• We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

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• What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

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• We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

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• When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

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  Tags in Believe, Possession

• We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

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• We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

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• We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

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• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

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• When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

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  Tags in Cowardice, Respectable

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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