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Way Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty…
- Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
- There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
- The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they…
- 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…
- It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
- Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your…
- Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of…
- There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American.is…
- 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…
- We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
- We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to…
- The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
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