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Eric Hoffer

American moral and social philosopher and author

Nationality: American

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Type: Author

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Birth: 1902-1983

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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

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Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

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

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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

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

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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

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There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

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Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

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

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

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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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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

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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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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

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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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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

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Fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

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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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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

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

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

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

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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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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

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It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -past and present -are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia

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

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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

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

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

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The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.

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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

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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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A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites -opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity -where energies flow smoothly in one direction -there will be much doing but no music.

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

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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour.

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

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

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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

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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 real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to

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

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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

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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 the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

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Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

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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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The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour 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

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A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

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A man by himself is in bad company.

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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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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

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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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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

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Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

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