Eric Hoffer Quotes

• Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Propaganda, Deceive, Themselves

• People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in People, Feeds

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Passionate, Hatred, Purpose

• Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more Our Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.

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  Tags in Man, Frustration, Spirit

• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in God

  Tags in Passionate, Preoccupation

• greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Greatest, Evil, Emptiness

• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

• One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Passion, Midwife, Action

• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Pride, Substitute, Self

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

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Men, Doing, Things

• Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Sinners

• Man was nature’s mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Mistake, Nature

  Tags in Man

• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Creature, Himself, Impossible

• It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Difficult, Exaggerate

• It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in True, Human, Opportunities

• It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desire, Opportunities, Talents

• It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Malady

• It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Child, Source, Talents

• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

• 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

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Evil, Reports

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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