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Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Miracles Become Possible Everything

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Faith Lost Holy Ourselves Cause

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Good Bad More Assume Than Potent

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Feel Loss Sometimes Prejudice Vigor

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Existence Individual Own Justify Who

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Fear People Some People Anything

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.

Talent Opportunities Desire Sometimes

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Knowledge Open Things Most Precise

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Dreams Grateful Feel True Ruin Come

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Empty Head Anything Difficulty Hence

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Death Living Praise Sign Inner

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Truth Believe Everyday Common Only

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