“There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.”
Eric Hoffer
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“To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”
Eric Hoffer
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“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy–the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
Eric Hoffer
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“Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.”
Eric Hoffer
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“Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.”
Eric Hoffer
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“Youth itself is a talent–a perishable talent.”
Eric Hoffer
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“It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites–opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity–where energies flow smoothly in one direction–there will be much doing but no music.”
Eric Hoffer
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Music
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“It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.”
Eric Hoffer
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.”
Eric Hoffer
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“It is cheering to see that the rats are still aroundthe ship is not sinking.”
Eric Hoffer
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“How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!”
Eric Hoffer
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“Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.”
Eric Hoffer
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“Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.”
Eric Hoffer
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“It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.”
Eric Hoffer
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?”
Eric Hoffer
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“Youth itself is a talent — a perishable talent.”
Eric Hoffer
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“There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.”
Eric Hoffer
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“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”
Eric Hoffer
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Change
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“When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.”
Eric Hoffer
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Boredom
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“We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.”
Eric Hoffer
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
