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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
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 (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than of deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
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 (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: I am what I am. Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: I am what I am not (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
We usually see only the things we are looking for - so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders (Eric Hoffer Quotes)