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Eric Hoffer Inspirational Quotes (327)

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Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
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...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion it is an evil government.
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For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.
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There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
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people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.
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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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Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
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In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them
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Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.
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Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.
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Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
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We cannot hate those who we despise.
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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