Eric Hoffer Quotes

• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

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

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

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

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• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

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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.

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• The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.

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

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

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

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• Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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

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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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