Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
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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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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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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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 easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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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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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.
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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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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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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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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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.