Eric Hoffer Quotes

• When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

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• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

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• Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

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• Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

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• Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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• With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

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• Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

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• You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

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• Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

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• The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

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• The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.

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• Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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• In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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• Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

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• Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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• than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

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• It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

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• The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

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• Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.

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• Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

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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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