“Nature of the Desire for Change: There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground… — 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
“For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In modern times, nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm, and that nationalist fervor must be tapped if… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must… — 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
