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Results of search for Author: Eric Hoffer - Page 4 of 5
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The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), True Believer or Theory of leisure class
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