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Eric Hoffer Quotes

«Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)
«The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: bondage
«The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.»
«We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)
«Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.»
«We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.»
«When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: primarily
«We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: precise, vehement
«There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: keeper
«The beginning of thought is in disagreement , not only with others but also with ourselves.»