All Eric Hoffer Quotes
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
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Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
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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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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
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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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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
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