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Eric Hoffer



Acceptance

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

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Compassion
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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Humility - Moderation
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

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The True Believer
Page 14
Published by HarperCollins , New York , 1951
Contribution #2069


Simplicity
We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

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The True Believer
Page 47
Published by HarperCollins , New York , 1951
Contribution #2070


Acceptance
Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family--what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

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The True Believer
Page 64
Published by HarperCollins , New York , 1951
Contribution #2071


Openness
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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

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Reflections On The Human Condition
Contribution #3059


Balance - Faith - Insight
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

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The True Believer
Page 22
Contribution #3949


Humility
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

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The True Believer
Page 23
Contribution #3950


Contentment - Discernment
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

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The True Believer
Page 23
Contribution #3951