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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
Psychologist
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New York City
New York
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Discontent
Arts
Creativity
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Art
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Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.
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The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.
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...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.
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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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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
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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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EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.
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The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
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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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