Eric Hoffer Quotes

American - Writer | July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

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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TrustWorldSomeoneCheatingFeeling

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

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PeopleHandLickBiteKicksBoot

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

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UglyEvilHideUpEmptinessUs

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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ThankfulBlessingsMasterCountUs

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

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PeoplePropagandaDeceiveThemselves

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

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NatureCreativityAbilityOrder

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

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LeaderLanguageVisionaryTalkMust

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

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StarsGodSkySpaceBackPassionate

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

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PowerLieTrueComeOnlyLies

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

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MotherWomanManChildInteresting

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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KindnessKindBecomeOwnBeingMade

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.

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PassionSocietyActionThoughtPass

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