Eric Hoffer Quotes
- The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
- Children are the keys of paradise.
- Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
- It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in…
- Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
- The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
- When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
- When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
- It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding…
- Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
- It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
- The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
- There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
- To the old, the new is usually bad news.
- Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
- You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
- Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
- It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
- Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.