Eric Hoffer
Writer
1898-07-25
Quotes by Eric Hoffer
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Anger is the prelude to courage.
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No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
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If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.
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Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith— faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven and who believed that nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
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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 opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
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Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
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Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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Anger is the prelude to courage.
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No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
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