This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years;… — 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
