Eric Hoffer Quotes
- Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
- Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
- Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
- The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
- There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
- There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
- To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
- We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
- We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
- We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to…
- A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
- Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
- Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
- Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
- I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
- It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
- Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
- Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.