"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice." — Eric Hoffer
"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
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Eric Hoffer
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
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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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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
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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…
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to…
— Georges Bataille
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less…
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
— Joseph Addison
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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