Eric HofferSelf-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1980). The True Believer371Truth
Eric HofferThere is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1982). B… ▶371Truth
Eric HofferThe creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.371PhilosophyThought
Eric HofferThere is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1996). The Passionate State of Mind361LovePoliticsThought
Eric HofferNaivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.372Hope
Eric HofferThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1996). The Passionate State of Mind373LovePoliticsThought
Eric HofferPropaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1996). The Passionate State of Mind362HumanityLovePolitics
Eric HofferIt is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1996). The Passionate State of Mind362LovePoliticsThought
Eric HofferThere is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1980). The True Believer373Truth
Eric HofferOne of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.352HumanityLoveThought
Eric HofferThe hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1996). The Passionate State of Mind341LovePoliticsThought
Eric HofferThere can be no freedom without freedom to fail. ✨ The Ordeal of Change. Book by Eric Hoffer, 1963.352Reading
Eric HofferPeople unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall gr… ▶341HumanityPolitics
Eric HofferA peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inabil… ▶341Truth
Eric HofferWhere there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ✨ 1955 The Passionate State of Mind.331HopeLovePolitics
Eric HofferPerhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle ti… ▶331Truth
Eric HofferThere are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each d… ▶375Life
Eric HofferNowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1977). In our time, McNally & Loftin Publishers375HumanityTime
Eric HofferWhen you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1982). Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Apho… ▶354Life
Eric HofferThe aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1982). Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorism… ▶376Humanity
Eric HofferOur credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1982). Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer, Ha… ▶343Hope
Eric HofferUnless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to esca… ▶332Humor
Eric HofferA doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettines… ▶376LovePoliticsThought
Eric HofferYouth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1996). The Passionate State of Mind365LovePoliticsThought
Eric HofferIt is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports abou… ▶377LovePoliticsThought
Eric HofferNationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1955). The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms377LovePoliticsThought
Eric HofferLearners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ✨ Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the… ▶366Truth
Eric HofferThe Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1979). Before the Sabbath, Harpercollins311Life
Eric HofferWhen the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playf… ▶344DeathLove
Eric HofferAdd a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1955). The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms355LovePoliticsThought
