Eric Hoffer quotes Born: 07/25/1902 Country: usa

• The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. (Eric Hoffer)
• Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow. (Eric Hoffer) [death]
• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. (Eric Hoffer) [search/happiness]
• How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. (Eric Hoffer) [death/appetite]
• There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. (Eric Hoffer)
• Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. (Eric Hoffer) [find]
• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. (Eric Hoffer) [compassion/compassion]
• To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. (Eric Hoffer) [awareness]
• The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. (Eric Hoffer)
• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. (Eric Hoffer) [hope-disappointment/]
• What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? (Eric Hoffer)
• When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. (Eric Hoffer) [cowardice/fashion]
• Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. (Eric Hoffer) [power]
• We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. (Eric Hoffer) [fear/forget]
• It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. (Eric Hoffer) [death]
• When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. (Eric Hoffer) [people]
• We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. (Eric Hoffer) [dreams/dreams]
• Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. 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 their words. (Eric Hoffer) [enemies/willpower/eyes/words]
• The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. (Eric Hoffer)
• Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. (Eric Hoffer) [process/think]
• Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer) [absolute/faith/absolute/power]
• The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. (Eric Hoffer) [thing]
• Facts are counterrevolutionary. (Eric Hoffer) [facts]
• Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. (Eric Hoffer) [hatred/give/life]
• However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. 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 their words. (Eric Hoffer) [eyes/words]
• In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. (Eric Hoffer) [time/change/future/find]
• We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. (Eric Hoffer) [more/bad/bad/more]
• Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. (Eric Hoffer)
• They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer) [talent/inspiration/ability/misfortune]
• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. (Eric Hoffer) [stranger]
• Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. (Eric Hoffer) [life/wonder]

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