Eric Hoffer citations

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Section 56
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Contexte: It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
Contexte: The readiness for self-sacrifice is contingent on an imperviousness to the realities of life.... For self-sacrifice is an unreasonable act.... All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world.... by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it.... To rely on the evidence of senses and of reason is heresy and treason. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.

Section 89
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Entry (1960)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

Entry (1962)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

Entry (1956)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

Section 6
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

Entry (1953)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

Source: First Things, Last Things (1971), Ch. 8 "Thoughts on the Present"

Entry (1956)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

Source: Reflections on the Human Condition (1973) Section 53

Entry (1967)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

Section 100
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

Section 9
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements

Section 44
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 5: "The Readiness to Work"

Section 94
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

Source: Before the Sabbath (1979), p. 79

Section 45, Ch. 13 Factors Promoting Self-sacrifice
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

Section 113 http://books.google.com/books?id=msOwAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22The+pleasure+we+derive+from+doing+favors+is+partly+in+the+feeling+it+gives+us+that+we+are+not+altogether+worthless%22&amp;pg=PA72#v=onepage <br class="br">The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

"Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'", The New York Times Magazine (April 25, 1971), p. 50.

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The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

Section 231 http://books.google.com/books?id=msOwAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22The+fear+of+becoming+a+has+been+keeps+some+people+from+becoming+anything%22&amp;pg=PA134#v=onepage <br class="br">The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

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The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

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The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)