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There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

Eric Hoffer
Creative, Soul, Way
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

Eric Hoffer
Sick, Soul, Humanity
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Eric Hoffer
Soul, Doe, Misery
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Eric Hoffer
Justice, Diversity, Soul
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.

Eric Hoffer
Agency, Soul, Devil
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Eric Hoffer
Compassion, Soul, Impulse
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Eric Hoffer
Numbers, Soul, Weakness
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

Eric Hoffer
Agreement, Soul, Prejudice
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Eric Hoffer
Inspirational, Compassion, Soul
Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

Eric Hoffer
Men, Soul, Flow
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

Eric Hoffer
Loss, Upset, Soul
Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Eric Hoffer
Opposites, Soul, Tension
Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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.

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