"We feel free when we escape - even……" — Eric Hoffer

"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

— Eric Hoffer

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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed...… — David Bailey
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher

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