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There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Eric Hoffer
Years, Effort, Individuality
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

Eric Hoffer
Failure, Years, Effort

In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo 's definition of art as the purgation of superfluities suggests that the creative effort consists largely in the elimination of that which complicates and confuses a pattern.

Eric Hoffer
Art, Simplicity, Effort
"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Eric Hoffer
Effort, Individuality, Literature
Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

Eric Hoffer
Men, Effort, Desire

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.

Eric Hoffer
Men, Building Up, Effort
"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.

Eric Hoffer
Thinking, Effort, Soul
"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.

Eric Hoffer
Dark, Self, Effort
"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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