Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERPeople who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
ERIC HOFFERNothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
ERIC HOFFERThe ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
ERIC HOFFERCommunists are frustrated capitalists.
ERIC HOFFERWhat monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
ERIC HOFFERThe basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
ERIC HOFFERThe creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFERRudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFERThe future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
ERIC HOFFERWe all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFERLanguage was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFERDeath has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFERTo know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
ERIC HOFFERThe opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
ERIC HOFFERA man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
ERIC HOFFER