I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
ERIC HOFFERSelf-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
-
-
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
ERIC HOFFER -
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
ERIC HOFFER -
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
ERIC HOFFER -
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFER -
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
ERIC HOFFER -
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
ERIC HOFFER -
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
ERIC HOFFER -
Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFER -
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
ERIC HOFFER -
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
ERIC HOFFER -
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER -
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
ERIC HOFFER -
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER -
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFER -
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
ERIC HOFFER