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Eric Hoffer

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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.


— Eric Hoffer


#smelled #specific

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.


— Eric Hoffer


#concern #improvement #more #motives #purity

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.


— Eric Hoffer


#best #best part #gracefully #grow #how

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.


— Eric Hoffer


#done #greatest #weariness #work

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.


— Eric Hoffer


#interesting #man #misery #mother #nobody

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.


— Eric Hoffer


#happiness #search #sources #unhappiness

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.


— Eric Hoffer


#copulate #meet #minds #wherever

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.


— Eric Hoffer


#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.


— Eric Hoffer


#greater #his #house #loneliness #own

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.


— Eric Hoffer


#each #living #other #society #together






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Certainly Europe had undergone a similar destruction of tradition but it had occurred centuries earlier at the end of the Medieval period and produced better results thanks to different circumstances. " He saw these puberty rites as essential for self-esteem and noted that mass movements and juvenile mindsets tend to go together to the point that anyone no matter what age who joins a mass movement immediately begins to exhibit juvenile behavior. Consequently self-loathing produces explosive effects that cannot be mitigated through social engineering schemes such as programs of wealth redistribution.

In 2001 the Eric Hoffer Award was establiEric Hofferd in his honor with permission granted by the Eric Hoffer Estate in 2005. His first book The True Believer publiEric Hofferd in 1951 was widely recognized as a classic receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.

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