Showing posts with label HOFFER Eric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HOFFER Eric. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Eric Hoffer: re-seeing the ordinary

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No. 90 Familiarity blurs and flattens.  Both the artist and the thinker are preoccupied with the birth of the ordinary and the discovery o...
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Saturday, March 11, 2017

Eric Hoffer: totalitarianism in free societies

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No. 28 There is a large measure of totalitarianism even in the freest of free societies.  But in a free society totalitarianism is not im...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Laotse and Eric Hoffer: the odd couple

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I first encountered this theme in Laotse's Tao Te Ching and, to be honest,  I didn't understand the significance or the reality at ...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Eric Hoffer: More! More! More! More!

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No. 22 "MORE!" is as effective a revolutionary slogan as was ever invented by doctrinaires of discontent.  The American, who can...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016

Eric Hoffer and dragons and devils

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Eric Hoffer has a unique perspective on the interrelationships among devils, dragons, and humans.  At least, it is unique as far as I'm ...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Eric Hoffer: conservatives and radicals

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Another quotation or aphorism from Eric Hoffer's The Passionate State of Mind. No. 21 "There is radicalism in all getting, and...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Eric Hoffer: The downside of some revolutions

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No. 63 The link between ideas and action is rarely direct.  There is almost always an intermediary step in which the idea is overcome.  De...
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Eric Hoffer: product of dissatisfaction

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No. 17 There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Eric Hoffer: two types of freedom

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No. 57 To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do.  It is p...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind

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No. 10 "The dislocation involved in switching from one passion to another--even its very opposite--is less than one wold expect.  Th...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

Eric Hoffer: on total commitment

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No. 54 Anyone aware of the imperfections inherent in human affairs is hardly capable of total commitment.  Part of him will inevitably rem...
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Friday, August 22, 2014

Eric Hoffer: some thoughts on freedom

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Some random quotations from Eric Hoffer on the nature of freedom: No. 55 We take for granted the need to escape the self.  Yet the self...
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Friday, August 1, 2014

Eric Hoffer: quiet confidence and noisy insecurity

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No. 11 "The passionate state of mind is often indicative of a lack of skill, talent or power.  Moreover, passionate intensity can ser...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Eric Hoffer: Troublemakers

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The following are aphorisms taken from the chapter "Troublemakers" by -- Eric Hoffer -- from Reflections on the Human Condition...
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Monday, March 3, 2014

Eric Hoffer: dissipation

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#9 "DISSIPATION is a form of self-sacrifice.  The reckless wasting of one's vigor is a blind striving to 'liquidate' an u...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Eric Hoffer: from Reflections on the Human Condition

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Something to irritate almost everybody .  .   . "#33  It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they h...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Eric Hoffer: on desire

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"7.  Every intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.  Hence probably the imperiousness of the desi...
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Eric Hoffer: the central task of education

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#32 "The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people....
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Eric Hoffer: desires and self-esteem

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# 5 "It is strange how the moment we have reason to be dissatisfied with ourselves we are set upon by a pack of insistent clamorous d...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Eric Hoffer: some thoughts on play

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28 "Man is a luxury-loving animal.  Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, bare...
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