The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a… — 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
