"It is a sign of a creeping inner……" — Eric Hoffer

"It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living."

— Eric Hoffer

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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…

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More Creeping Quotes

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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. — Dean Koontz
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.… — Humphry Davy
Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should… — Joseph Hall
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In… — Mark Twain
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping… — John Charles Polanyi
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. — Eric Hoffer
Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air… — Gabriele d'Annunzio
What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing — Ishmael Reed
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded… — Charles Dickens
All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like… — Sherwood Anderson

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