Eric Hoffer Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Eric Hoffer:

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

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To the old, the new is usually bad news.

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

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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

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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.

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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

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Facts are counterrevolutionary.

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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

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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.

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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

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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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The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

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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.

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A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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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.

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

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It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

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Children are the keys of paradise.

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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

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