Eric Hoffer Quotes

• We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

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

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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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• We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

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

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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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• Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

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

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

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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.

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

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• 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.

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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 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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• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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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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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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