"The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves,……" — Eric Hoffer
"The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others."
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Eric Hoffer
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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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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be…
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
— Aesop
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word…
— Benjamin Carson
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values.…
— Jacques Monod
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Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of…
— Charles Babbage
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers…
— Richard Dawkins
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