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Letter "E" » Eric Hoffer Quotes
«A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.»
«Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.»
«Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.»
«To the old, the new is usually bad news.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
«It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.»
«A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.»
«Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.»
«It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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«A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.»
«The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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