The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFERThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFERTo become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFERThe creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFERAbsolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFERA passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
ERIC HOFFERWe lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERThe hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
ERIC HOFFERRudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFERFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERThe hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
ERIC HOFFERSelf-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
ERIC HOFFERIt is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
ERIC HOFFERFar more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
ERIC HOFFERIt is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
ERIC HOFFEREvery successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
ERIC HOFFER