Famous Quotes / Eric Hoffer
188 Quotations by Eric Hoffer
- 121. The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
- 122. The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist ...
- 123. The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un ...
- 124. The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian ...
- 125. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
- 126. The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an ...
- 127. The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o ...
- 128. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
- 129. The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The i ...
- 130. The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a ...
- 131. The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart ...
- 132. The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experienc ...
- 133. The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
- 134. There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
- 135. There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
- 136. There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a jo ...
- 137. There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which se ...
- 138. There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being hi ...
- 139. There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar ...
- 140. There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow ...