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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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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In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
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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 sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
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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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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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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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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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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
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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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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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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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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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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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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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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.