Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.