3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer One 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.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Man was nature’s mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
