Eric Hoffer

(24 votes)   The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

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(18 votes)   Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

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(14 votes)   It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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(14 votes)   When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

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(11 votes)   There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

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(10 votes)   A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

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(8 votes)   Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

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(7 votes)   Children are the keys of paradise.

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(7 votes)   You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

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(245 votes)   Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(232 votes)   The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

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(227 votes)   The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

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(169 votes)   Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of

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(163 votes)   The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

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(155 votes)   Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

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