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New Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
- Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be…
- We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in…
- The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its…
- 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…
- When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture,…
- Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most…
- The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a…
- Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new…
- Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism…
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self…
- The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor…
- The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and…
- It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
- Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
- It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
- To the old, the new is usually bad news.
- To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.
- 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…
- 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…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I'm on this amazing new diet where the ladies I sleep with don't invite me to their birthday parties. — Nikhil Saluja
- The Things That Make You Feel Bad, Are The Ones That Will Eventually Go Away, So, You Should Never Give Up Fighting,… — Ritu Ghatourey
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein
- There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he… — Nelson Mandela
- Wait." Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something." Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born… — Cassandra Clare