"The devil personifies not the nature that is……" — Eric Hoffer
"The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche."
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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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A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
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I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.
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The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest…
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of…
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not…
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy,…
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man…
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
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