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The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one’s individual distinctness in a compact collective whole (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
To lose one’s life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing (Eric Hoffer Quotes)