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"50 Eric Hoffer Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 25 July 1898. Died: 21 May 1983 | Philosopher | Author |

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Strength Rudeness Imitation Weak
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Failure Greater His House
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Anything Becoming Fear Has-Been
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Discover Enemy Fears Frighten
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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.

Cutting Down Element Later
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Escape Even Feel Fire
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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Enough Happy Make Need
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Arithmetic Blessings Count Enables
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Chief Happiness Search Sources
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Degree Effective Indispensable Leadership
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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.

Escape Eyes Only Others
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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.

Beautifully Change Deal Earth
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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Craving Giving Having Mother
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Hang Mind Onto Prejudices
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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

Age Busy Learn Left
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Call Child He Ills
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Children are the keys of paradise.

Children Keys Of Paradise
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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.

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

Creates Desire Intense Intense Desire
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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.

Ascent Crucial Man Origin
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Depended Each Living Other
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Bite Boot Feeds Hand
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Each Free Imitate Other
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Become Being Kind Kindness
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Attracts Evil Often Power
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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Come Nation Orderly Peaceful
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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.

Child Interesting Man Misery
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Empty Give Hatred Life
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Lie Loudest When Ourselves
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Ability Creativity Introduce Nature
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Creature Himself Impossible Man
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Body Consider Human Human Body
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Gives Giving He His
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Break Heart His More
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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.

AbAbsolute Power Also Come Lie
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

About Absolutely Certain Only
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Awareness Desires Destiny Feeling
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Also Beginning Disagreement Only
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Form A Self-Sacrifice Dissipation
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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Animals Machines Often Passionate
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Done Greatest Weariness Work
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

About Concerning Knowledge Least
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Believe Common Everyday Indifferent
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Awareness Become Different Must
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Meet Minds Copulate Wherever
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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.

Always Arrive Ends Fear
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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.

Echo Example Eyes Imitate
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Acquiring Consists Few Good
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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.

Best Game Heads History
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Eric Hoffer Quotes & Sayings