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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
Psychologist
Writer
New York City
New York
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Dissatisfied
Many
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Much
Lack
Things
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Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
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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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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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A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.
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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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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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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.
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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
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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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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
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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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Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were the people, and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.
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