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An American social writer and philosopher. Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American social writer and philosopher. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work. In 2001, the Eric Hoffer Award was established in his honor with permission granted by the Eric Hoffer Estate in 2005.
Here are some famous quotes by Eric Hoffer.
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Fear is uncertainty.
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We are made kind by being kind.
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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
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When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
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Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
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The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
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When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
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Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude.
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Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.
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It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
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It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
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People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.
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It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
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When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.
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It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.
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The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
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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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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.
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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.
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.