Eric Hoffer Quotes & Sayings

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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunies for battle.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

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