Eric Hoffer quotes - page 9

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. (Eric Hoffer)
We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us. View quote
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A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. View quote
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It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. View quote
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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. View quote
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. View quote
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. View quote
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. View quote
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There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. View quote
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. View quote
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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. (Eric Hoffer)
The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations. View quote
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. View quote
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. View quote
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Facts are counterrevolutionary. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. View quote
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To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair. View quote
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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. View quote
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They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. View quote
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Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. (Eric Hoffer)
Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already "know." View quote
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There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. View quote
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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves. View quote
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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. View quote
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