Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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 a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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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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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
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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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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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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.