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Toward Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.
- When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
- Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together…
- Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
- The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,…
- We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
- 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…
- The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a…
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