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Eric Hoffer
Profession : Writer
Birth : July 25, 1898
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Eric Hoffer
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Eric Hoffer
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Eric Hoffer
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
Eric Hoffer
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
Eric Hoffer
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
Eric Hoffer
Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
Eric Hoffer
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Eric Hoffer
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Eric Hoffer
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
Eric Hoffer
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
Eric Hoffer
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
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
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