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"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
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Eric Hoffer
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All quotes by Eric Hoffer
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Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.
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Eric Hoffer
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
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Eric Hoffer
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Eric Hoffer
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A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader.
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Eric Hoffer
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Eric Hoffer
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Eric Hoffer
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Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a ...
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Eric Hoffer
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The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is ...
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Eric Hoffer
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The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
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Eric Hoffer
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Eric Hoffer
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Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is de...
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Eric Hoffer
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Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Eric Hoffer
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We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to d...
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Eric Hoffer
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he take...
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Eric Hoffer
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Fanatical orthodoxy is in all movements a late development. It comes when the movement is ...
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Eric Hoffer
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Eric Hoffer
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Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and...
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Eric Hoffer
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Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to ...
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Eric Hoffer
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It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power ...
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Eric Hoffer
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The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than of deep convic...
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Eric Hoffer
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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find hi...
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Eric Hoffer
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We usually see only the things we are looking for so much so that we sometimes see them...
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Eric Hoffer
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Eric Hoffer
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The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful pr...
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Eric Hoffer
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We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we u...
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Eric Hoffer
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it al...
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Eric Hoffer
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Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolution...
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Eric Hoffer
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My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while wait...
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Eric Hoffer
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space i...
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Eric Hoffer
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The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual's identification with a g...
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Eric Hoffer
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to ope...
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Eric Hoffer
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Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it...
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Eric Hoffer
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those ...
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Eric Hoffer
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A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
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Eric Hoffer
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The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.
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Eric Hoffer
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Good writing, like gold, combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is ...
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Eric Hoffer
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If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I ...
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Eric Hoffer
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We can never have enough of that which we really do not want, and... we run fastest and fa...
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Eric Hoffer
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is un...
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Eric Hoffer
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God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man...
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Eric Hoffer
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come...
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Eric Hoffer
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent...
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Eric Hoffer
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No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
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Eric Hoffer
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The fear of becoming a "has been" keeps some people from becoming anything.
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Eric Hoffer
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time ...
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Eric Hoffer
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Eric Hoffer
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It is not good for our efforts at self-realization to know the opinions other people have ...
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Eric Hoffer
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It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to inven...
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Eric Hoffer
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormousl...
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Eric Hoffer
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, free...
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Eric Hoffer
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic wh...
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Eric Hoffer
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When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.
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Eric Hoffer
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Eric Hoffer
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they s...
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Eric Hoffer
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement not only with others but also with ourselve...
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Eric Hoffer
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their ...
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Eric Hoffer
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It is the individual only who is timeless
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Eric Hoffer
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That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not ...
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Eric Hoffer
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourse...
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Eric Hoffer
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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in ...
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Eric Hoffer
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a ...
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Eric Hoffer
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are ...
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Eric Hoffer
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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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Eric Hoffer
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are fr...
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Eric Hoffer
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Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.
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Eric Hoffer
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The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a despera...
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Eric Hoffer
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Eric Hoffer
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass...
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Eric Hoffer
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To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our...
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Eric Hoffer
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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
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