"Those who are in love with the present……" — Eric Hoffer
"Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless."
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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 principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth…
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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
— Maya Angelou
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You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The Bible consistently denies free will.
— Gordon Clark
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We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands…
— Ronald Reagan
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Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing -…
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When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.
— Sun Tzu
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The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that…
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