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Eric Hoffer Inspirational Quotes (327)

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Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.
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The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.
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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.
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It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
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In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
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It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt - are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.
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It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.
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For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities.
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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 real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people's assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
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It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.
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To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.
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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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The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
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A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.
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The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.
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It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
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The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.
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