Eric Hoffer Quotes

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

- Eric Hoffer

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

- Eric Hoffer

Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These 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 opportunies for battle.

- Eric Hoffer

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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

- Eric Hoffer

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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

- Eric Hoffer

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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

- Eric Hoffer

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward 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.

- Eric Hoffer

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

- Eric Hoffer

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

- Eric Hoffer

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The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest people in the world.

- Eric Hoffer

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Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

- Eric Hoffer

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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

- Eric Hoffer

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The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves.

- Eric Hoffer

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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

- Eric Hoffer