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Ideas have significance for hi...

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

Eric Hoffer 868 quotes

The remarkable thing is that w...

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffer 868 quotes

However much we talk of the in...

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

Eric Hoffer 868 quotes

It is the individual only who ...

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

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Every great cause begins as a ...

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

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In the alchemy of man's soul a...

In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

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For many people, an excuse is ...

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

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Rudeness is the weak man's lim...

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

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Mass movements can rise and sp...

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

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Actual creativeness is a matte...

Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

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Faith is primarily a process o...

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 868 quotes

There is a radicalism in all g...

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

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To believe that if only we had...

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.

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An easygoing person is probabl...

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

Eric Hoffer 868 quotes

Nature attains perfection, but...

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

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Language was invented to ask q...

Language was invented to ask questions.

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Successful action tends to bec...

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

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Every extreme attitude is a fi...

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

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Unless a man has talents to ma...

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, 'to be free from freedom.'

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The capacity for getting along...

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

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