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Eric Hoffer
American
Writer
Born:
Jul 25
,
1898
Died:
May 21
,
1983
Become
Evil
Man
Most
Own
People
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
Master
Our
Count
Arithmetic
Blessings
Enables
Which
Us
Hardest
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
People
Kicks
Bite
Boot
Lick
Feeds
Hand
Them
Who
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer
People
Propaganda
Merely
Does
Deceive
Them
Themselves
Helps
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
Change
Learning
World
Earth
Find
Longer
Beautifully
Learned
Learners
Deal
Equipped
Exists
Times
While
Themselves
Inherit
Children are the keys of paradise.
Eric Hoffer
Paradise
Keys
Children
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
Lie
Power
Those
Possession
Lies
Only
Prophecy
Prophesy
Absolute
Absolute Power
True
Come
Also
Make
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Eric Hoffer
Trust
Wonderful
World
Cheating
Feeling
Someone
Something
He
Missing
Him
Always
Wonderful Feeling
Who
Right
Thinks
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer
Hope
Disappointment
Soul
Too Much
Expectation
Too
Sort
Bankruptcy
Much
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
Strength
Rudeness
Imitation
Weak
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
Happiness
Sources
Chief
Unhappiness
Search
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
You
Enemy
Fears
He
Observing
Most
Discover
Frighten
Means
Your
Uses
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
Kindness
Made
Become
Own
Kind
Motive
Being
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
Life
Hatred
Give
Purpose
Empty
Passionate
Meaning
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Eric Hoffer
Free
Fire
Feel
Escape
Even
Pan
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer
God
Space
Sky
Somewhere
Stars
Back
Our
Drawn
Outer
Outer Space
Came
Passionate
Impulse
Where
Preoccupation
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer
Language
Leader
Visionary
Must
Idealist
Talk
Practical
Realist
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer
Evil
Men
Power
Our
Ears
Penetrating
About
Seems
Remarkable
Idea
Fellow
Fellow Men
Attuned
Opinion
How
How Much
Pinch
Malice
Reports
Wonderfully
Much
Enhances
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer
Forcing
Difficulty
Rubbish
Head
Stuffed
Empty
Anything
Really
Hence
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer
Faith
Religion
Intolerance
Must
Find
Know
His
Brand
Person
Listen
Profession
Need
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
Water
Wine
Mediocrity
He
Idea
Real
Antichrist
Turns
Who
Original
Original Idea
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
People
Free
Other
Imitate
Please
Each
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer
Love
Humanity
Easier
Neighbor
Than
To Love
Whole
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer
Mind
Evil
Every
More
Than
Person
Suspicious
Formidable
Doubts
Believes
Lurking
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer
Hide
Ugly
Evil
Our
Pretenses
Something
Emptiness
Greatest
Built
Up
The Hardest Thing
Us
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Eric Hoffer
Will
Minority
Free
Dissent
Only
Feels
Most
Majority
Impose
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
Teacher
Time
Age
Young
Busy
Our
No Time
Learn
Malady
Left
Us
Teaching
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