To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
