"The burning conviction that we have a holy……" — Eric Hoffer
"The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site.
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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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What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I…
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling,…
— Byron Katie
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow,…
— Clay Shirky
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Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower…
— Steven Morrissey
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It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth,…
— George Sand
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The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and…
— Max Stirner
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I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not…
— Peter Medawar
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the…
— Jonathan Kozol
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For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and…
— Unknown Author
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The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to…
— John Dewey
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Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise,…
— Herbert Turnbull
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