Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hofferwas an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that The Ordeal of Change was his finest work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 July 1902
CountryUnited States of America
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Man was nature's mistake -she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
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Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.
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Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
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The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.
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The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.
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A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.
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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
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It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others
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It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor
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To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact way
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There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
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We can see through others only when we see through ourselves