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Quotes of Eric Hoffer (Germany)1871-1962 British Poet
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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. (learning)
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. (generalizations)
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. (habit)
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (failure)
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. (failure)
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. (escapism)
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. (fatigue)
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. (god)
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. (history and historia)
Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. (fatigue)
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. (example)
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. (heresy)
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. (generosity)
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. (freedom)
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. (glory)
Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything. (fear)
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. (fear)
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. (manners)
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. (modern and modernism)
To the old, the new is usually bad news. (novelty)
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. (judgment and judges)
There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before. (masses)
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. (lies and lying)
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. (ignorance)
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. (self-sabotage)
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