Eric Hoffer Quotes - Page 16

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• The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields.With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.

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  Artist, Way, Fields

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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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  Mind, Body, Reverence

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

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  Art, Children, Fun

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1973.

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• Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

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  Nature, Men, Goal

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• In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

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  Running, Fall, Anxiety

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

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  Intellectual, Matter, Way

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• It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.

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  Hate, Wrath, World

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

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  Fighting, Men, Society

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

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  Failure, Years, Effort

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• A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

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  Love, Peace, Malcontent

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

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  Conformity, Clique, Nonconformist

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 50), 1973.

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• Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

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  Freedom, Energy, Mass

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

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  Thinking, People, Frustrated

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

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  Children, Growing Up, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

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  Bullying, Self Esteem, Envy

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

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  Men, Doubt, Ruthlessness

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

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  Character, World, Way

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

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  Respect, Freedom, Mean

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

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  Agreement, Soul, Prejudice

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

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  Power, Men, Clay

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• It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

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  Selfish, Needs, Self Righteous

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• A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

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  Home, Men, Order

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

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  Party, Acceptance, Destiny

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

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  Movement, Strange, Should

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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