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Eric Hoffer Inspirational Quotes (327)

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God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: I am what I am. Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: I am what I am not.
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It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
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We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.
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One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.
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All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
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The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.
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Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
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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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Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .
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Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
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The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.
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The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness and both these ends are reached by imitation.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.
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It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
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We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact
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My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
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